Hrvoje> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: Hrvoje> But of course. And neither are extents. Don't you Hrvoje> remember my rants about it? Yes, I do remember them. What I don't understand is why it is so hard to at least preserve extents/markers _outside_ of the region being decoded (all of the markers I need for the VM application are outside of the region). Nor do I understand how it's done right for non-Mule operations. So "I have no idea why" == "I don't know where to start looking for a fix." (Well, I can do a little better than that. I start in insdel.c, and it shouldn't be too many "find-tag"s later that I start to understand. But it will probably be many hours....) -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are those two straight lines for? "Free software rules."