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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 49944@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT).
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 15:24:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o89r2anv.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YRAb/GDJ0Ax+PXlJ@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 8 Aug 2021 18:01:32 +0000")

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Emacs-28, emacs started with site-start.el and .emacs.
>
> On calling
>
>     (parse-partial-sexp 19 18 nil nil s)
>
> Emacs surely ought to signal an error, since 18 < 19.  It doesn't,
> though.  It leaves point at a random position and returns
>
>     (0 nil nil nil nil nil 0 nil nil nil nil)
>
> This is a bug.

I've now made this change (and the doc string clarification discussed).
There are no test failures after the change, and I'm not getting any
errors when running it normally, either.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-21 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-08 18:01 bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT) Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-08 18:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-08 18:51   ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-09 12:42     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-09 16:50       ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-10 13:50         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-10 14:03           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 14:41             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-08-10 14:54               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-10 15:07                 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-08-10 15:36                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 15:44                   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-08-10 16:38                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-11 11:04                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-21 13:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-08-21 14:05   ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-21 22:11   ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-08-22 10:50     ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-22 15:02     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-22 22:54       ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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