From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8545: issues with recent doprnt-related changes Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 07:56:43 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4DC1692B.1090101__11916.9250633151$1304522357$gmane$org@cs.ucla.edu> References: <4DB50AB9.6060100@cs.ucla.edu> <83tydmaeo3.fsf@gnu.org> <4DB65FF1.5010003@cs.ucla.edu> <83aafb8p4a.fsf@gnu.org> <4DB8ABEA.3080503@cs.ucla.edu> <4DB9146D.2040702@cs.ucla.edu> <4DB9E5FF.9020506@cs.ucla.edu> <83d3k571ee.fsf@gnu.org> <4DC10012.8020809@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304522357 32325 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2011 15:19:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 15:19:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8545@debbugs.gnu.org, Emacs Development To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 04 17:19:13 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHdr6-00028P-Ar for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 17:19:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49528 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHdr5-0002Q9-RJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 11:19:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47632) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHdr1-0002N3-6M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 11:19:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHdr0-0002vv-0o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 11:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:57168) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHdqz-0002vq-Uq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 11:19:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHdVe-0005bk-Gi; Wed, 04 May 2011 10:57:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 14:57:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8545 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8545-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8545.130452101421541 (code B ref 8545); Wed, 04 May 2011 14:57:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8545) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 May 2011 14:56:54 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHdVV-0005bM-D1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 10:56:53 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHdVT-0005b9-Cu for 8545@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 10:56:52 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED3E339E8108; Wed, 4 May 2011 07:56:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Zv8K4bRud9SX; Wed, 4 May 2011 07:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (pool-71-189-109-235.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.109.235]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C2D239E80FA; Wed, 4 May 2011 07:56:44 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 10:57:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:46204 Archived-At: On 05/04/11 02:52, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> It seems from that discussion that strings can contain MOST_POSITIVE_FIXNUM bytes. > I think the conclusion was that it can contain MOST_POSITIVE_FIXNUM > _including_the_terminating_null_. Hmm, that's not how I read . I understood the argument to be that a buffer must contain at most MOST_POSITIVE_FIXNUM - 1 bytes due to other reasons, but it's OK to have "a string whose length is MOST_POSITIVE_FIXNUM", i.e., (= (length STRING) most-positive-fixnum), because we already check buffer sizes before inserting strings. If you count the trailing byte, the length of the underlying C character array would be MOST_POSITIVE_FIXNUM + 1. I'll CC: this to emacs-devel just in case I misinterpreted that.