GNU bug report logs - #24914
24.5; isearch-regexp: wrong error message

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

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

Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 22:31:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: confirmed, fixed, patch

Found in versions 24.5, 25.2

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

Message #56 received at 24914 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: drew.adams <at> oracle.com, 24914 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24914: 24.5; isearch-regexp: wrong error message
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 11:48:26 +0200

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 20:18:02 -0500
> Cc: 24914 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Emacs never did (the MS-DOS port of Emacs runs in i386 32-bit
> > protected mode on top of a 16-bit OS).  But regex.c did, at some very
> > distant past, to support the 16-bit MS compiler, or at least it tried
> > to.
> 
> So changing to 2^31 as the max should be fine, right?

Or maybe just INT_MAX?
This bug report was last modified 7 years and 119 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.