GNU bug report logs - #8545
issues with recent doprnt-related changes

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 05:48:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #147 received at 8545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 8545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: issues with recent doprnt-related changes
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 18:03:46 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,  8545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 10:33:21 -0300
> 
> And we never show "length, including
> terminating nul-byte" to Elisp, so the nul-byte shouldn't matter

If you are sure of that, then I agree it's fine to use
MOST_POSITIVE_FIXNUM+1.  I wasn't sure.  I do see in C variables that
explicitly use the string position of the null byte; I was afraid that
they could somehow leak to Lisp.
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