From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: member inconsistency? Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:20:51 +0100 Message-ID: <8737tgocmk.fsf@gmx.net> References: <87twly2iye.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> <871t929f1e.fsf@gmx.net> <87oac5s2a7.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9hx8dfr.fsf@gmx.net> <87h9hwadi1.fsf@igel.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454066477 24042 80.91.229.3 (29 Jan 2016 11:21:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Philipp Stephani , Nicolas Goaziou , Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 29 12:21:08 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aP76x-0005NJ-Aa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:21:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aP76w-0006YZ-Jb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 06:21:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35440) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aP76s-0006YK-H3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 06:21:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aP76r-0004X7-NC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 06:21:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:60648) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aP76n-0004WB-MO; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 06:20:57 -0500 Original-Received: from rosalinde ([89.245.90.215]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M5csW-1a9nDC0D2e-00xc0Q; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:20:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87h9hwadi1.fsf@igel.home> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:25:42 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:k+Mad/l16ZGoTDiVESrZlK+g4/7dvLgf+2rIV/VlGFd7l5IsDYw S8nt55hyCLE+IQQYzPk7e7aX8KL9UH6N+2oezWJXUcAjYdzdf1YLnRYl+Wv5KHQqIFksH8x xUv74MQGmnMLbcbsHm/8P1TnA0xCSX96pgk8LBzGySI4Ocbq75t5hMLaGcks7e6gLzIvXy1 PrJFAz18TGNTChfB47QrQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:eb7tyOHSmF4=:j51Ar5JzhQ8xedRgZZASi3 V/H4ButsSISJUDQqkt0E8fyG4MmHrvrde7g/DwRXYW1yU87g3DPtVKZ38OHevouZOUbE2vH1E g9l+DTKMRzk0HO5LOIat4GV6VbwvAtuC+3z/QmaiQszOX8mVeCqZoA8v8dmbGeDHurp76tgEf GZk0maftEgBg5Zhgpe9QjBbH7UDLuGkoANBnemx44SLp0DaICQ244F/3KzskqbPGsL6ZXH/Pz sNuyBfdscD+ROYhTu2tJ51pwJAHkTfFOthy4+0TQEH7Ve0vyTY39tR8va91hgiqM/yGb7DWKO hl0izK31J8VYyXMUAUIcbX3MYUibaf6RrJVtKwaqsF+gUnfmvZ9QQH0W4laLRnoN+hq2gktu9 sHLA18Ouj47yQip1WG7+jvgOkYxW7OsqvhMDQz6mX0yxB9qLd2tdbNOxNU5hjFhffuX8URRsA 8JHhfRY2x9R33uYT+i0/VfTUXOJ087yEY72t90NQAYJywqIRCfWpSGs6XI5grilzXU3z3XsR/ vGekfctnrO0R/YOqiBSVzKvXc0/Jq538wmQCCtagNvJNvu+hcosN4TNiLeZM0bQ/P13kejwNo zJtJCIMA7IR6qwd3V2iZyV/SZU4iZ2Eut6b/wBn/5CiHeuO3Muk5j8xlPjvOYSPV0ej0xObT7 HpwWK3NkGCoaQPC7jUKwpAEMfNI1wlz3eGS0riLcsonZKniPQjLGin2JTdP6wk9FqeLx6KvfY GRAblmJDSmJQvhVy2K4RYPCvbSSqm7KKKfsV8cCvj5xwevU9i+9SQw0aRBb37B1kRQL2cX59 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.21 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:198987 Archived-At: On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:25:42 +0100 Andreas Schwab wrote: > Stephen Berman writes: > >> Oh, thanks for the pointer. So the patch I proposed reverts a change >> Stefan deliberately made more than eight years ago. > > IMHO that change was wrong. It made CHECK_LIST_CONS a no-op, and there > was nothing wrong with it before Stefan's change. AFAIU the code, I agree with you, but Stefan evidently didn't see it that way at the time, and while the ChangeLog doesn't indicate whether a problem was being fixed (and I found no discussion about it by skimming through the emacs-devel archive), he disputed there was a bug when Johan Bockg=C3=A5rd reported exactly this issue a few months after the change. B= ut I don't feel competent enough to argue against it, so I'm bowing out here. Steve Berman