From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#42296: 27.0.91; Correct manual entry for 'concat' w.r.t. allocation [PATCH] Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 20:31:38 +0300 Message-ID: <83wo3cppc5.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24926"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 42296@debbugs.gnu.org To: Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 09 19:32:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jtaP4-0006Ml-F2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 19:32:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34022 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtaP3-0008Dn-CN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:32:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54048) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtaOw-0008Df-Dd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:58280) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtaOw-0006He-4v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jtaOw-0001Di-1l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:32:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 17:32:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 42296 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 42296-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B42296.15943159214688 (code B ref 42296); Thu, 09 Jul 2020 17:32:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 42296) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Jul 2020 17:32:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41593 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jtaOv-0001DU-Bu for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:32:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40208) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jtaOr-0001DF-R8 for 42296@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:32870) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtaOm-0006Gi-BC; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:31:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1697 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jtaOl-0002hD-LN; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:31:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= on Thu, 9 Jul 2020 17:54:10 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:182870 Archived-At: > From: Mattias Engdegård > Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 17:54:10 +0200 > > 'concat' hasn't guaranteed the allocation of a new string since 1997 at least (79d137ffe7d). Remove claims to the contrary from the manual. This loses too much useful information, IMO. Let's please say that the result is sometimes ("frequently"?), but not always, a new string, and that programs should not rely on that aspect. Thanks.