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

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Message #68 received at 8545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, 8545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8545: issues with recent doprnt-related changes
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:14:14 -0400

> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:54:21 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: lekktu <at> gmail.com, 8545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> If all that doprnt does is compute *format_end (or format_end+1
> without dereferencing format_end+1), and if the documentation
> notes that format_end must point to a character
> (format_end cannot point to one-past-the-buffer-end,
> which is what I expected), then that part's OK.

Yes, that's how things are.  format_end points to the last byte of the
buffer passed to doprnt.

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