Re: jit lock sit-for provokes redisplay provokes imenu

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Wouldn't it be safer if such counts would be compared for equality
>     only?
>
> It would be, but I doubt it is possible in general
> to use only equality comparisons.  Does someone want to study
> the question and see?

Another possibility would be to check the sign of their difference
instead of comparing them directly.

Then wraparound is not a problem, instead one of them has to have
moved more than half the total range away from the other before things
get ugly.

Probably less likely.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum