GNU bug report logs - #17893
24.4.50; (error "Marker does not point anywhere")

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 21:12:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4.50

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #105 received at 17893 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 17893 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, charles <at> aurox.ch
Subject: Re: bug#17893: 24.4.50; (error "Marker does not point anywhere")
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:20:30 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli), 17893 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 11:48:19 -0500
> 
> > What is missing is a way of methodically walking all the markers
> > reachable from the cloned buffer's local variables, and changing each
> > marker to point to the cloned buffer instead of the parent buffer.
> 
> I think this is equivalent to the halting problem.

Yes, I know.  But that doesn't mean it is, and certainly not that the
problem couldn't be described.
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