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23.3; Crash in indirect buffer

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Message #37 received at 8219 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 8219 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8219: Effect of deletions on indirect buffers (Bug#8219)
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:30:59 -0400

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Yes.  At least that was my conclusion last time we bumped into such
> a bug.  I even added a comment in buffer.h about it:
>
> /* !!!FIXME:  all the BUF_BEGV/BUF_ZV/BUF_PT macros are flawed:
>    on indirect (or base) buffers, that value is only correct if that buffer
>    is the current_buffer, or if the buffer's text hasn't been modified (via
>    an indirect buffer) since it was last current.  */

I think we should do away with the BUF_BEGV and related macros.  Let the
code in buffer.c manipulate the buffer->begv members directly; and the
usage in other parts of Emacs can be replaced with buf_begv() functions
that will update begv if necessary, and return the corrected result.

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