GNU bug report logs - #18504
24.3.93; posn-at-point intermittently returns wrong value for a valid buffer position

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Reported by: Dmitry <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 01:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.93

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18504 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18504: 24.3.93;	posn-at-point intermittently returns wrong value for a valid buffer	position
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.
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