bug#46906: 28.0.50; byte compiler infloops trying to compile infloop

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>> I don't think so, because it doesn't work for Lisp infloops.
>> (with-timeout (1 (error "foo")) (while t)) doesn't work here, at
>> least.
>
> Then maybe run a possibly infinite loop in a separate thread?

I don't think that would work -- our threading stuff is based on
"cooperative multithreading", I think?  Which means that the code we're
testing has to call `yield', which it normally doesn't.

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