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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, 8545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: bug#8545: issues with recent doprnt-related changes
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:56:39 +0300

> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:28:35 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, 8545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>     No, format_end is already pointing after the object;
>     the object's size is format_end - format.  So
>     format_end + 1 might not be a valid pointer.
> 
> 20 years ago, Emacs allocated an extra byte with a null character
> after the end of every string or buffer.

20 years later, we still do that for strings, but (AFAICS) not for
buffers.
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 251 days ago.

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