Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 2836 in lilypond: LilyPond hangs if NoteHead 'stencil is empty

[lilypond]

Comment #12 on issue 2836 by address@hidden: LilyPond hangs if  
NoteHead 'stencil is empty
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2836

I don't really like this patch with its mostly unmotivated way of checking  
for sideeffects of missing stencils (infinite values here, nans there and  
so on) and slightly correcting for them.  If the sideeffects change, the  
corrections will get bypassed.  I think it would be saner to just  
explicitly check for empty stencil extents in general and directly code  
behavior intended for that case instead of letting nonsensical values  
propagate and compensating their effects later on.

Now that is not really relevant to the backporting question except that the  
sideeffect-based coding approach here might shift the side effects in 2.16  
to a place where they are dealt with worse than before.

I don't see any detail in this patch that I consider likely to cause a  
change to the worse, but as long as it does not fix any problem known to  
occur also in 2.16, I still see no point in cherry-picking it.