edebug-defun says "variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size"

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From: garyo
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 16:10

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In GNU Emacs 19.25.94.4 (sparc-sun-solaris2.3, X toolkit) of
Fri Aug 19 1994 on prometheus:

Start emacs -q (to ensure vanilla environment).

(find-file "/usr/local/lib/emacs/19.25.94/lisp/fill.el")
(search-forward "defun fill-region-as-paragraph")  ;; a 174-line function
(beginning-of-line)
(edebug-defun)

It will fail (repeatably) with the above error.  Setting
max-specpdl-size to 2000 prevents the error in this case.

-- Gary Oberbrunner (garyo@avs.com)

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