Re: Fix for crash: skip-syntax-backward("_w")
Gunnar Evermann <ge204(a)eng.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> * search.c (skip_chars): Work around gcc compiler bug.
> Fix long-suffering skip-syntax-backward crash.
I personally think this is a Good Thing[TM] but didn't we decide not
to work around this bug?
If read the solution correctly it is another case of the problem where
a function/code (possibly with side effects)
given as an argument to the function is not executed at the right
point (i.e. before the function call) when
the compiler is optimizing (and presumably doing some inlining).
If that is this the case then I remember seeing comments that XEmacs
is working around these problems at other points in the code. If it is
OK there, it is OK here.
Jan