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24.0.50; crash in find_interval

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Message #97 received at 7952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, romain <at> orebokech.com, 7952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7952: 24.0.50; crash in find_interval
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 18:42:44 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com,  romain <at> orebokech.com,  7952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 12:32:29 -0300
> 
> >> BTW, wouldn't it be preferable to pass the `start' position as an
> >> argument rather passing it implicitly via a dynamic variable?
> 
> > ??? It's a hook we are going to call, right?  It's not just any
> > function.
> 
> run-hook-with-args (...-hook would need to be renamed to ...-functions,
> of course).

Which breaks back-compatibility.  Unless we introduce
compilation-filter-start-functions _in_addition_to_ the existing
hook.  But that sounds gross, just to avoid a single let-bound dynamic
variable, doesn't it?

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