Subject: Re: bug#18504: 24.3.93; posn-at-point intermittently returns wrong value for a valid buffer position

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 23:38:18 +0400

On 09/19/2014 11:35 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Nope. POS is always the same.
>
> I sometimes see nil there.

True (there are two code paths that call the function, and one of them 
without the optional argument): but it just means "value of point", 
which is the same.

And anyway the bug gets triggered in both situations, with nil, and with 
integer equal to point.