From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: One example of code I can't understand Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:07:48 +0300 Message-ID: <83ocreohrv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <833a8soxmc.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248145709 26160 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2009 03:08:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:08:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 21 05:08:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MT5iH-0004eg-DP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:08:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52353 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MT5iG-0005MU-MC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MT5iC-0005IM-6H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:08:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MT5i8-0005DF-Hx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:08:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34368 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MT5i8-0005D7-DV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:08:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il ([84.95.2.13]:40641) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MT5i4-0007ss-Nq; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:08:08 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout5.012.net.il by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KN400G0039W5T00@i_mtaout5.012.net.il>; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:07:49 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.246.110]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KN400A1O3D0FPD1@i_mtaout5.012.net.il>; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:07:49 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112883 Archived-At: > From: Kenichi Handa > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:51:08 +0900 > > In article , Richard Stallman writes: > > > Why do we need to cater to unibyte operation in Emacs 23? > > 1. Unibyte buffers may be needed for certain internal operations. I > > am not sure -- we need to ask Handa. > > Currently, we are using unibyte buffers for various internal > operations (e.g rmail, tar-mode, jka-compr, ...). The code in question decides how to encode portions of a mail buffer for sending an email message. I doubt that the above uses of unibyte buffers can be ever exposed to this code, since for that they would need to be parts of an email message being composed.