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: Wed, 04 May 2011 05:52:10 -0400 Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304503630 13584 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2011 10:07:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 10:07:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8545@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 04 12:07:05 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 1QHYyx-0000Kj-OL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 12:06:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45604 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHYyx-0001op-3c for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 06:06:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57352) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHYyu-0001ok-4n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 06:06:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHYyt-00027o-3I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 06:06:56 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:41867) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHYyt-00027h-0E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 06:06:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHYlS-0006LZ-40; Wed, 04 May 2011 05:53:02 -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: Wed, 04 May 2011 09:53:02 +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=B8545.130450273924345 (code B ref 8545); Wed, 04 May 2011 09:53:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8545) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 May 2011 09:52:19 +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 1QHYkk-0006Kc-OL for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 05:52:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHYki-0006KO-AU for 8545@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 05:52:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHYkc-0008Ip-Tq; Wed, 04 May 2011 05:52:10 -0400 In-reply-to: <4DC10012.8020809@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Wed, 04 May 2011 00:28:18 -0700) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 05:53:02 -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:46187 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 00:28:18 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: 8545@debbugs.gnu.org > > On 04/29/11 04:16, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > I guess so, yes. I would like to have other opinions, though, so I > > will start a new thread on emacs-devel about that. > > 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_. > Also, that va_arg bug really needs fixing. So I plan to install the following > patch after some more testing. This assumes va_copy exists, which may affect > the Windows port, but a one-line macro should suffice if it doesn't have > va_copy already. Right, I will take care of that when this is installed. Thanks.