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Stop assuming interval pointers and lisp objects can be distinguished by inspection. Beginnings of support for expensive internal consistency checks. * config.in (ENABLE_CHECKING): Undef. * lisp.h (struct interval): Replace "parent" field with a union of interval pointer and Lisp_Object; add new bitfield to use as discriminant. Change other flag fields to bitfields. (CHECK): New macro for consistency checking. If ENABLE_CHECKING is defined and the supplied test fails, print a message and abort. (eassert): New macro. Use CHECK to provide an assert-like facility. * intervals.h (NULL_INTERVAL_P): Now applies only to real interval pointers; abort if the value looks like a lisp object. (NULL_INTERVAL_P, NULL_PARENT, HAS_PARENT, HAS_OBJECT, SET_PARENT, SET_OBJECT, INTERVAL_PARENT, GET_INTERVAL_OBJECT, COPY_PARENT): Modify for new interval parent definition. * alloc.c (mark_interval_tree, MARK_INTERVAL_TREE, UNMARK_BALANCE_INTERVALS): Update references that need an addressable lisp object in the interval structure. (die): New function. (suppress_checking): New variable. * intervals.c (interval_start_pos): Just return 0 if there's no parent object.

This is a list of known problems to date with the Windows NT/95 port of
GNU Emacs.

* Handle wildcards in ls-lisp (e.g., C-x d *.c).

* Interactive subprocess output is buffered in jerky

* Presently, C:\foo\bar and C:/foo/bar bring up two buffers on the same file.
  Solve this by adding a switch that canonicalizes path separators
  (e.g., make them all / or all \)?

* call-process-region: Another tricky situation with binary and text modes.
  An example by [e-mail]: use crypt++ to load compressed
  data into a buffer, edit the buffer, save the data back out.  (Also
  need to propagate the "/C" switch change sent the shell in crypt++.el
  back to the author.)

* Dired uses ls-lisp, which reports all files as being owned by the
  current user.  Need to dig through the security descriptor to extract
  the owner of the file (and the group?) using LookupAccountSid.

* Integrate the build for NT into the GNU config process once
  a decent shell becomes freely available

* Integrate networking.

* Fix Win95 subprocesses.