From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:41:04 -0700 Message-ID: References: <88must56x4.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536363591 10751 195.159.176.226 (7 Sep 2018 23:39:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 23:39:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.91 (darwin) Cc: Stefan Monnier , Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 01:39:47 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 1fyQLq-0002iP-Td for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 01:39:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40737 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyQNw-0008BS-RS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:41:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58561) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyQNH-0008BN-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:41:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyQNG-0006cv-TZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:41:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37945) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyQNC-0006KW-0N; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:41:10 -0400 Original-Received: from auth1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.227]:58977) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fyQNB-0004EH-S8; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:41:09 -0400 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 287E121FFE; Fri, 7 Sep 2018 19:41:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:41:09 -0400 X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Sender: Original-Received: from localhost (76-234-69-149.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [76.234.69.149]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C9EF910297; Fri, 7 Sep 2018 19:41:07 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 7 Sep 2018 16:12:07 -0700") Mail-Followup-To: Paul Eggert , Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A5rd?= , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@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:229463 Archived-At: >>>>> "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. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2