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internal_equal manipulates symbols with position without checking symbols-with-pos-enabled.

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Message #38 received at 65051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 65051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, acm <at> muc.de, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#65051: internal_equal manipulates symbols with position
 without checking symbols-with-pos-enabled.
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2023 16:13:13 +0300

> Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2023 13:04:07 +0000
> Cc: 65051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, acm <at> muc.de
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> 
> > > No, only the bare symbol is in the obarray.  The symbol with position
> > > itself is a pseudovector, with contents (i) a bare symbol (a Lisp_Object
> > > "pointing at" the obarray) and (ii) the unsigned integer position.
> 
> > Please document this factoid in the ELisp manual, I think it's very
> > important, and having it undocumented is a Bad Thing.
> 
> DONE.  The change is near the top of the following patch, amended from
> the previous version.

LGTM, thanks.

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