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Re: Dynamic loading progress


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Dynamic loading progress
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 05:31:21 +0200

> From: Philipp Stephani <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:10:58 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>     You can call it "undefined behavior" if you want. Personally, I don't
>     think that's accurate: "undefined" means anything can happen, whereas
>     Emacs at least promises to output the original bytes unchanged, as
>     long as the text modifications didn't touch them.
> 
> "Unspecified" would fit the bill better. Actually for most interesting inputs
> (UTF-8 strings) the behavior is well-defined anyway.

Correct.

>     That's the _User_ manual, it simplifies things to avoid too much
>     complexity.
> 
> So where's the programmer's manual then? The source code? ;-)

There's the ELisp manual, yes.  It should be more accurate in this
regard.

> Attached a patch that uses make_multibyte_string directly. 

Looks good to me, thanks.



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