Re: Interesting bug

Wednesday, 22 March 2000

        Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes:

...
 It seems if you let bind a constant string, e.g:

 (let ((mystr "\n")) ...)

 and then attach an extent to it, if you run this code the extents
 will *accumulate* rather than replace each other. Semantically when
 I let bind a constant string I would expect it to be extent free... 
When you write "\n", you don't necessarily get a fresh string.  Your
code is equivalent to this C code:

while (1)
  {
    char *p = "buhaha";

    ... change contents of p ...
  }

You may get a coredump doing so, but then again you may not.

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