bug#24378: [PATCH 1/6] Don’t use FETCH_MULTIBYTE_CHAR when advancing index

[Michal Nazarewicz]

On Tue, Sep 06 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
>> Date: Tue,  6 Sep 2016 15:31:29 +0200
>> 
>> * src/casefiddle.c (casify_region): use STRING_CHAR_AND_LENGTH as a safe
>> alternative to FETCH_MULTIBYTE_CHAR which is documented in src/buffer.h
>> as unsafe when used for advancing index.
>
> AFAIK, that comment is stale and no longer correct.  I don't think
> there's a reason to make this change anymore, since STRING_CHAR no
> longer unifies characters.

I’ll drop the patch in favour of updating the comment in
FETCH_MULTIBYTE_CHAR then.

/me wonders if STRING_CHAR_AND_LENGTH must be faster than
FETCH_MULTIBYTE_CHAR followed by CHAR_BYTES.

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