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issues with recent doprnt-related changes

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Message #162 received at 8545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 8545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8545: Merged fixes for 8600, 8601, 8602, and (partially)
 for 8545
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:37:44 +0200

Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> * Bug#8545 - This fixes the bug where the code should have called
>              va_copy, but didn't.  Also, I changed a limit so that
> 	     the MOST_POSITIVE_FIXNUM limit for strings applies to
> 	     their length, i.e., does not include the null termination
> 	     byte.  Stefan hasn't had time to chime in, but if this
>              last change turns out to be incorrect I will back it out.
>
> This merge doesn't entirely fix Bug#8545, so I'll leave that bug open;
> the others I'll close.

This was a quite long thread, and had a bunch of related bugs discussed.
Skimming this thread, I'm not sure exactly what the remaining problem in
this bug report is -- the discussion kinda petered out...

This is nine years old -- is there anything more to be done here?

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