Index: slime/ChangeLog
diff -u slime/ChangeLog:1.1979 slime/ChangeLog:1.1980
--- slime/ChangeLog:1.1979  Sun Feb  7 17:33:53 2010
+++ slime/ChangeLog Sat Feb 13 06:34:38 2010
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-02-13  Tobias C. Rittweiler <tcr@freebits.de>
+
+   * slime.el (slime-attempt-connection): Do not keep on trying to
+   connect if inferior process died.
+

Small correction: The new line 1423 uses Common Lisp syntax in the format string instead of Emacs Lisp syntax.

line 1423:

           (message "Gave up connecting to Swank after ~D attempts." attempt))

"~D" needs to be changed to "%d":

           (message "Gave up connecting to Swank after %d attempts." attempt))