From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 09:34:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83ftykts36.fsf@gnu.org> References: <88must56x4.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536388410 25154 195.159.176.226 (8 Sep 2018 06:33:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 06:33:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, bojohan@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "John Wiegley" , Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 08:33:26 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fyWo9-0006Tq-9s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 08:33:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41495 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyWqF-0004pN-NI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 02:35:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38922) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyWpf-0004pE-11 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 02:34:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyWpe-0003mw-9r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 02:34:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyWpX-0003eh-QV; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 02:34:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2970 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fyWpX-0002fz-CP; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 02:34:51 -0400 In-reply-to: (johnw@gnu.org) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229481 Archived-At: > From: "John Wiegley" > Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:41:04 -0700 > Cc: Stefan Monnier , > Johan Bockgård , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert writes: > > PE> Cool! That means we can do Stefan's request simply by reverting Kenichi > PE> Handa's patch that introduced the ability to change the byte length of a > PE> string (commit 3c9de1afcde82a99137721436c822059cce79b5b dated 2000-07-21 > PE> 06:45:30 UTC), since that patch made the code explicitly disagree with the > PE> documentation. Though this leaves open the question of why Handa made that > PE> change in the first place. > > I'd like to hear Handa's rationale, but otherwise am +1 for reverting. Won't work without CC'ing Handa-san ;-)