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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master eb37e4814e 3/3: Fix unlikely null pointer dereference
Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 10:14:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e778790d-c971-e48b-81c9-7351be5dc491@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czfyeb5u.fsf@yahoo.com>

On 5/27/22 17:46, Po Lu wrote:

> How can name be NULL if had_errors_p is false?  x_get_atom_name always
> returns something if need_sync is false, and XGetAtomName always returns
> a string unless an error occured.

Oh, you're right - I hadn't noticed that. So my recent patch didn't fix 
any runtime bugs, though it did pacify GCC and I hope made the confusing 
code a bit easier to follow for humans too.

I see you made further improvements in the area; thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-28 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <165367719442.14912.2771599004379547518@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20220527184637.984F7C01683@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-05-28  0:46   ` master eb37e4814e 3/3: Fix unlikely null pointer dereference Po Lu
2022-05-28 17:14     ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2022-05-29  0:30       ` Po Lu

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