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bug#20783: 25.0.50; [PATCH] byte-to-position has internal off-by-one bug


From: Wolfgang Jenkner
Subject: bug#20783: 25.0.50; [PATCH] byte-to-position has internal off-by-one bug
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:19:10 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.50 (berkeley-unix)

Version: 25.1

On Thu, Jun 11 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Works for me, thanks.  But please add a comment there about
> BYTE_TO_CHAR expecting byte positions that are on a character
> boundary, so that the reason for the loop is clear.

Done and pushed.

However, I didn't follow my own suggestion of adding a remark to the
comment above BYTE_TO_CHAR, after all, as it is true for most macros or
functions with a byte position argument, so adding such a comment to
just one of them could be confusing, I think.

Thank you for steering this change in the right direction.





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