Re: ["Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden>] Re: crash in emacs-21.1

[Pavel Janík]

   From: address@hidden (Gerd Moellmann)
   Date: 25 Oct 2001 10:16:24 +0200

   > > The files are all compiled with 20.2.  I haven't been following the
   > > 20.x line closely because I worked on what's now 21 during that time,
   > > but ISTR that there was something affecting the byte-code around
   > > 20.2.  Does else someone remember that?
   > 
   > I remember that, but I couldn't find any trace of it in NEWS.

Does this help?

alloc.c:

  if (STRINGP (args[1]) && STRING_MULTIBYTE (args[1]))
    /* BYTECODE-STRING must have been produced by Emacs 20.2 or the
       earlier because they produced a raw 8-bit string for byte-code
       and now such a byte-code string is loaded as multibyte while
       raw 8-bit characters converted to multibyte form.  Thus, now we
       must convert them back to the original unibyte form.  */
    args[1] = Fstring_as_unibyte (args[1]);

-- 
Pavel Janík

I'm glad that Emacs is bigger and more open than some of the people who use
it.
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