Re: Integer & glyph (trunk and emacs_unicode)

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>       (let ((id (and face (face-id face))))
>         (if (and (numberp id)
>                  ;; Due to limitations on Emacs integer values, only
>                  ;; face ids below a certain limit can be used.
>                  (= id (lsh (lsh id glyph-char-bits) (- glyph-char-bits))))
>             (logior char (lsh id glyph-char-bits))
>           char))
>
>     Is there any problem if I implement this solution in trunk and Emacs 
>     unicode?
>
> It's not _wrong_, but we've already decided to replace the
> mechanism with the use of cons cells.
>
> And I am pretty sure someone has already written the code for that.
> Who was it?

I've promised to write the necessary code as soon as the unicode
branch has been merged.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk