bug#9514: 24.0.50; eval + format weirdness

bug#9514: 24.0.50; eval + format weirdness

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

The form

(let* ((string (with-temp-buffer (insert "%%b") (buffer-string)))
       (form `(format ,string)))
  (list form
	(eval form)))

evaluates to

((format "%%b") "%bb")

but it should evaluate to

((format "%%b") "%b")

Note that bzr trunk rev. 104389 gives the correct result whereas
rev. 104390 gives the wrong result.

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bug#9514: 24.0.50; eval + format weirdness

[Paul Eggert]

Thanks for reporting that.
I fixed it in the trunk (bzr 105786).

bug#9514: 24.0.50; eval + format weirdness

[Andreas Schwab]

Except that this has nothing to do with eval.

Andreas.

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bug#9514: 24.0.50; eval + format weirdness

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Except that this has nothing to do with eval.

Nor with most anything else in my example...

So a better bug report would have been

Subject: format barfs on certain strings

For example,

(format "%%é")

evaluates to garbage.

However, the paradoxical thing was rather

(let* ((string1 "%%b")
       (string2 (with-temp-buffer (insert string1) (buffer-string))))
  (list (string-equal string1 string2)
	(format string1)
	(format string2)))

=> (t "%b" "%bb")

as it wouldn't have easily occurred to me that string1 and string2 can
have different representations on the C level, which format treats
differently (though this shouldn't show ;-)

Wolfgang

bug#9514: 24.0.50; eval + format weirdness

[Paul Eggert]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> Except that this has nothing to do with eval.

True; I fixed the ChangeLog entry to not mention eval.

The patch you just installed for text properties (bzr 105788)
causes (format "%4000s%%" "") to fail with
(error "Format string ends in middle of format specifier"),
and it causes (length (format "%%")) to incorrectly return 2.
I fixed those two problems in a further patch (bzr 105791);
I hope this also fixes the text-property issue.

bug#9514: 24.0.50; eval + format weirdness

[Andreas Schwab]

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> The patch you just installed for text properties (bzr 105788)
> causes (format "%4000s%%" "") to fail with
> (error "Format string ends in middle of format specifier"),
> and it causes (length (format "%%")) to incorrectly return 2.
> I fixed those two problems in a further patch (bzr 105791);
> I hope this also fixes the text-property issue.

Thanks, looks good.  For reference, here's a testcase for the
text-property issue:

(let ((s (string-to-multibyte "%%%%foo")))
  (add-text-properties 2 7 '(foo t) s)
  (format s))

Before my patch it returned #("%%foo" 0 5 (foo t)).

Andreas.

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bug#9514: 24.0.50; eval + format weirdness

[Andreas Schwab]

The only issue was the mishandling of %% in a multibyte format string,
like this:

(format (string-to-multibyte "%%foo"))

Andreas.

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