Re: address@hidden: Endless Loop with diary entries]

[Gerd Moellmann]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Can you investigate this?
> 
> From: address@hidden
> Subject: Endless Loop with diary entries
> To: address@hidden
> CC: Ed Reingold <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 08:24:52 +0200
> Reply-To: Harald Maier <address@hidden>
> 
> This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,
> not to your local site managers!
> Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
> usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
> 
> Your bug report will be posted to the address@hidden mailing list.
> 
> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I followed the discussion in the emacs-devel mailing list about the
> calendar problem. On my system I figured out a similar problem that is
> too related to this problem. If I execute the following lines in a
> .emacs file then the current cvs emacs (see the compilation date)
> hangs in a endless loop in xdisp.c. Personal, I don't think that this
> problem is related to the author of the diary system. The problem
> seems to be related to the changes in xdisp.c because before Aug 8 it
> worked fine and I also don't have problems with emacs-21.2.90.

[...]

Does this patch fix it for you?  (I'm about to install it, too.)

Index: xdisp.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/src/xdisp.c,v
retrieving revision 1.775
diff -c -c -r1.775 xdisp.c
*** xdisp.c     3 Aug 2002 12:44:18 -0000       1.775
--- xdisp.c     9 Aug 2002 17:24:43 -0000
***************
*** 3869,3875 ****
         n += STRINGP (it->string) ? 0 : 1)
      {
        if (!get_next_display_element (it))
!       break;
        newline_found_p = it->what == IT_CHARACTER && it->c == '\n';
        set_iterator_to_next (it, 0);
      }
--- 3869,3875 ----
         n += STRINGP (it->string) ? 0 : 1)
      {
        if (!get_next_display_element (it))
!       return 0;
        newline_found_p = it->what == IT_CHARACTER && it->c == '\n';
        set_iterator_to_next (it, 0);
      }