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authorPhilipp Stephani <phst@google.com>2020-11-29 14:24:57 +0100
committerPhilipp Stephani <phst@google.com>2020-12-06 17:47:52 +0100
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Print a backtrace on unhandled errors in batch mode (Bug#44942).
* src/eval.c (signal_or_quit): Print a backtrace in batch mode if no error handler was found. * test/src/eval-tests.el (eval-tests/backtrace-in-batch-mode) (eval-tests/backtrace-in-batch-mode/demoted-errors): New unit tests. * etc/NEWS: Document change.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/eval.c')
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/eval.c b/src/eval.c
index d9a424b57a9..18df484aac0 100644
--- a/src/eval.c
+++ b/src/eval.c
@@ -1709,6 +1709,7 @@ signal_or_quit (Lisp_Object error_symbol, Lisp_Object data, bool keyboard_quit)
break;
}
+ bool debugger_called = false;
if (/* Don't run the debugger for a memory-full error.
(There is no room in memory to do that!) */
!NILP (error_symbol)
@@ -1722,7 +1723,7 @@ signal_or_quit (Lisp_Object error_symbol, Lisp_Object data, bool keyboard_quit)
if requested". */
|| EQ (h->tag_or_ch, Qerror)))
{
- bool debugger_called
+ debugger_called
= maybe_call_debugger (conditions, error_symbol, data);
/* We can't return values to code which signaled an error, but we
can continue code which has signaled a quit. */
@@ -1730,6 +1731,18 @@ signal_or_quit (Lisp_Object error_symbol, Lisp_Object data, bool keyboard_quit)
return Qnil;
}
+ /* If we're in batch mode, print a backtrace unconditionally to help with
+ debugging. Make sure to use `debug' unconditionally to not interfere with
+ ERT or other packages that install custom debuggers. */
+ if (!debugger_called && !NILP (error_symbol)
+ && (NILP (clause) || EQ (h->tag_or_ch, Qerror)) && noninteractive)
+ {
+ ptrdiff_t count = SPECPDL_INDEX ();
+ specbind (Vdebugger, Qdebug);
+ call_debugger (list2 (Qerror, Fcons (error_symbol, data)));
+ unbind_to (count, Qnil);
+ }
+
if (!NILP (clause))
{
Lisp_Object unwind_data