Re: Emacs pretest 23.0.90

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 1/14/2012 11:05 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Emacs pretest 23.0.90 is now available for download via FTP, at the
> following location:
>
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-23.3.90.tar.gz
>
> This is a pretest for a planned Emacs 23.4 release, which will fix the
> security flaw in EDE reported on emacs-devel a few days ago.  It also
> fixes many other bugs in Emacs 23.3, but contains no new features.
>
> Please help give this as much testing as possible over the next few
> days, as I hope to make the Emacs 23.4 release from this if no
> significant problems are found in this pretest.
>
> Please send me an email reporting success or failure on your build
> platform, and report bugs that you find via M-x report-emacs-bugs, or
> email bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.  For questions, email emacs-devel@gnu.org.

This doesn't build if USE_MMAP_FOR_BUFFERS is defined.  The following 
patch fixes it:

--- buffer.c~   2012-01-11 07:35:01.000000000 -0500
+++ buffer.c    2012-01-15 17:55:45.812514400 -0500
@@ -5338,7 +5338,7 @@
        Map new memory.  */
     struct buffer *b;

-   for (b = all_buffers; b; b = b->next)
+   for (b = all_buffers; b; b = b->header.next.buffer)
       if (b->text->beg == NULL)
         enlarge_buffer_text (b, 0);
   }


Ken