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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2016-08-22 14:40:35 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2016-08-22 14:40:35 -0700
commitc325e199668a2449a9b0d662e114eec9d4802288 (patch)
tree274955e934a223b81d593cb27d4d444a1eaf4ab6 /src/character.h
parent512b06e4309ba6c5cd3d2d2518a931b0664c4150 (diff)
parent927afa1ef6514e62162068d7dbdc9d8381a71598 (diff)
downloademacs-c325e199668a2449a9b0d662e114eec9d4802288.tar.gz
Merge from origin/emacs-25
927afa1 ; Update ChangeLog.2 and ldef-boot.el for Emacs 25.1 RC2 6bf83b5 * etc/AUTHORS: Update the AUTHORS file 73cbb81 ; ChangeLog spelling fixes 9b99772 Some assorted documentation clarifications 37d4723 Improve commentary in src/character.h 5ccd593 ; Fix typo in /etc/NEWS 96e3d16 * etc/NEWS: Mention the change in json-encode-string. 2e524034 ; * etc/NEWS: Mention incompatible change in url-http-create... 2e4e74e Merge branch 'emacs-25' of git.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/emac... 66dea65 ; * doc/lispref/windows.texi (Window Parameters): Grammar twe... # Conflicts: # ChangeLog.2 # lisp/ldefs-boot.el
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/src/character.h b/src/character.h
index 586f330fba9..0d0e31c4c92 100644
--- a/src/character.h
+++ b/src/character.h
@@ -237,7 +237,8 @@ enum
#define CHAR_HEAD_P(byte) (((byte) & 0xC0) != 0x80)
/* How many bytes a character that starts with BYTE occupies in a
- multibyte form. */
+ multibyte form. Unlike MULTIBYTE_LENGTH below, this macro does not
+ validate the multibyte form, but looks only at its first byte. */
#define BYTES_BY_CHAR_HEAD(byte) \
(!((byte) & 0x80) ? 1 \
: !((byte) & 0x20) ? 2 \
@@ -247,7 +248,9 @@ enum
/* The byte length of multibyte form at unibyte string P ending at
- PEND. If STR doesn't point to a valid multibyte form, return 0. */
+ PEND. If the string doesn't point to a valid multibyte form,
+ return 0. Unlike BYTES_BY_CHAR_HEAD, this macro validates the
+ multibyte form. */
#define MULTIBYTE_LENGTH(p, pend) \
(p >= pend ? 0 \
@@ -263,7 +266,8 @@ enum
: 0)
-/* Like MULTIBYTE_LENGTH, but don't check the ending address. */
+/* Like MULTIBYTE_LENGTH, but don't check the ending address. The
+ multibyte form is still validated, unlike BYTES_BY_CHAR_HEAD. */
#define MULTIBYTE_LENGTH_NO_CHECK(p) \
(!((p)[0] & 0x80) ? 1 \
@@ -324,15 +328,7 @@ enum
/* Like STRING_CHAR, but set ACTUAL_LEN to the length of multibyte
- form.
-
- Note: This macro returns the actual length of the character's
- multibyte sequence as it is stored in a buffer or string. The
- character it returns might have a different codepoint that has a
- different multibyte sequence of a different length, due to possible
- unification of CJK characters inside string_char. Therefore do NOT
- assume that the length returned by this macro is identical to the
- length of the multibyte sequence of the character it returns. */
+ form. */
#define STRING_CHAR_AND_LENGTH(p, actual_len) \
(!((p)[0] & 0x80) \