GNU bug report logs - #4209
23.1; Emacs 23.1 regression in re-search-forward

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Christopher J. Madsen" <cjm <at> cjmweb.net>

Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:35:06 UTC

Severity: serious

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #43 received at 4209 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 4209 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, cyd <at> stupidchicken.com
Subject: Re: bug#4209: 23.1; Emacs 23.1 regression in re-search-forward
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:15:28 +0900

In article <jwvvdemoy0b.fsf-monnier+emacs <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> > So, in emacs-unicode branch, I fixed the regex code so that
> > unibyte pattern can be directry used for multibyte buffer
> > search by doing unibyte->multibyte conversion on the fly.
> > And that code was merged to trunk.

> Hmm... that's too bad since the subsequent change to get rid of the
> dependency on locales made this change unnecessary.

Yes.  I'll put this in my todo list (but with lower priority).

   * avoid on-the-fly uni<->multi conversion in regex.c.

> But given this, yes, the patch looks right, and no, I have no idea what
> the CHAR_BYTE8_P test was trying to do.

Ok, thank you for the confirmation.

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Kenichi Handa
handa <at> m17n.org
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