[PATCH] test: use `princ' instead of `message' calls in emacs tests

Tue May 10 02:12:40 PDT 2011

On Tue, 10 May 2011 10:25:08 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> The patch replaces all (message (buffer-string)) calls in emacs
> tests with (princ (buffer-string)).  This avoids accidentally
> interpreting '%' as format specifiers and makes code simpler
> because we do not need to capture stderr.
> 
> Also, the patch works around an Emacs (23.3+1-1 on current Debian
> Unstable) segfault in "Ensure that emacs doesn't drop results"
> test.  Note: the segfault does not happen on every test run.
> Though, it seems to be consistently reproducible if the test uses
> 300 messages instead of 30.  Hopefully, it is the crash described
> in Emacs bug #8545 [1] which is already fixed.

This is a great catch, Dmitry.  Thank you.  And I'm glad you and Austin
figured out the best solution.

jamie.
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