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30.0.50; primitive-undo: Changes to be undone by function different from announced

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: 60467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, acm <at> muc.de, yantar92 <at> posteo.net, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#60467: 30.0.50; primitive-undo: Changes to be undone by function different from announced
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 16:36:01 +0200

> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 09:24:09 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
> cc: 60467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, 
>     Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, yantar92 <at> posteo.net
> 
> > For the loop currently in `subr.el` I think the (cdr ptr) is OK because 
> > we use the `setcdr` to truncate the list, so that last cons (whose `cdr` 
> > may be nil) will be in the list included in the (apply ....) entry.
> >
> 
> Indeed, now I see it, and I think (without being 100% sure) that it's OK. 
> It's yet another obscure point of the original code, though.

I hope all these revelations will find their way into comments to this
tricky code.

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