From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8545: issues with recent doprnt-related changes Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 23:36:49 +0300 Message-ID: <83ei4cnau6.fsf__25927.5909200825$1304627832$gmane$org@gnu.org> 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> <4DC1692B.1090101@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304627832 4323 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2011 20:37:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 20:37:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8545@debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert , Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 05 22:37:07 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 1QI5IJ-0000Ol-KY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 22:37:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55244 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QI5IJ-0006IB-2u for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 16:37:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43825) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QI5IF-0006Fk-UI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 16:37:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QI5IF-0001WH-0U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 16:37:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:48137) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QI5IE-0001WD-VD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 16:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QI5IE-0005AJ-8f; Thu, 05 May 2011 16:37:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 20:37:02 +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=B8545.130462781919846 (code B ref 8545); Thu, 05 May 2011 20:37:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8545) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 May 2011 20:36:59 +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 1QI5IA-0005A3-Mh for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 16:36:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QI5I7-00059q-VQ for 8545@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 16:36:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LKQ00D00P8XTX00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 8545@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 23:36:50 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.234.175]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LKQ00DTCP9BH540@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 05 May 2011 23:36:50 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4DC1692B.1090101@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 16:37:02 -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:46245 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 07:56:43 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: 8545@debbugs.gnu.org, Emacs Development > > 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. Stefan, could you please chime in?