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

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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>

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, "Charles A. Roelli" <charles <at> aurox.ch>
Cc: 17893 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA
Subject: bug#17893: 24.4.50; (error "Marker does not point anywhere")
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 11:26:29 +0100

> 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.

Have `clone-buffer' record the parent buffer somewhere and when we
encounter a marker referring a dead buffer that is the same as the
recorded parent buffer redirect the marker on the fly to the cloned
buffer.  Not overly clean but what could we lose?

martin
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