From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel
Subject: Re: Is CHAR_TO_BYTE considered to have no side-effects?
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:44:56 -0600 (MDT)
Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org
Message-ID: <200204181844.g3IIiuO00449@aztec.santafe.edu>
References: <20020417162147.20D9.LEKTU@terra.es>
Reply-To: rms@gnu.org
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019155587 25721 127.0.0.1 (18 Apr 2002 18:46:27 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:46:27 +0000 (UTC)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Return-path: <emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org>
Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244])
	by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian))
	id 16yGvL-0006gk-00
	for <emacs-devel@main.gmane.org>; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:46:27 +0200
Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164])
	by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))
	id 16yHEe-0008SL-00
	for <emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org>; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:06:24 +0200
Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org)
	by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian))
	id 16yGuT-0001lk-00; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:45:33 -0400
Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119])
	by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian))
	id 16yGtt-0001ef-00; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:44:57 -0400
Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49])
	by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g3IIiua15363;
	Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:44:56 -0600 (MDT)
Original-Received: (from rms@localhost)
	by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g3IIiuO00449;
	Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:44:56 -0600 (MDT)
X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f
Original-To: lektu@terra.es
In-Reply-To: <20020417162147.20D9.LEKTU@terra.es> (message from Juanma
	Barranquero on Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:30:19 +0200)
Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org
X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9
Precedence: bulk
List-Help: <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Post: <mailto:emacs-devel@gnu.org>
List-Subscribe: <http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel>,
	<mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
List-Id: Emacs development discussions. <emacs-devel.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel>,
	<mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/emacs-devel/>
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2746
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2746

    So, can CHAR_TO_BYTE be considered, interface-wise, as side-effect free?

For most purposes, yes.  Unless the surrounding code operates directly
on the marker data structures in a way that might be fooled by 
creating new markers, it is ok.