From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:11:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-21.1~151
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6343352f43998ba50bc0980719635a2798e7f414;p=emacs.git

Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash.
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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index 1d46c40de4d..df8592ca5a4 100644
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -840,6 +840,17 @@ e.g. if you need more CJK coverage, use the current Mule-UCS package.
 Any files encoded as emacs-mule using oc-unicode won't be read
 correctly by Emacs 21.
 
+* Using epop3.el package causes Emacs to signal an error.
+
+The error message might be something like this:
+
+  "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth"
+
+This happens because epop3 redefines the function gethash, which is a
+built-in primitive beginning with Emacs 21.1.  We don't have a patch
+for epop3 that fixes this, but perhaps a newer version of epop3
+corrects that.
+
 * On systems with shared libraries you might encounter run-time errors
 from the dynamic linker telling you that it is unable to find some
 shared libraries, for instance those for Xaw3d or image support.