view etc/future-bug @ 54341:80dfe07a1d65

New file (image.c) for Image consolidation: (COLOR_TABLE_SUPPORT): New define to control whether color table support is available (X only). (Bitmap_Record): Common name for x_bitmap_record, w32_bitmap_record, and mac_bitmap_record. (XImagePtr): Common name for pointer to XImage or equivalent. (XImagePtr_or_DC): New type to simplify code sharing; equivalent to XImagePtr on X+MAC, and to HDC on W32. (GET_PIXEL): Wrapper for XGetPixel or equivalent. (NO_PIXMAP): Common name for "None" or equivalent. (PNG_BG_COLOR_SHIFT): Bits to shift PNG background colors. (RGB_PIXEL_COLOR): Common type for an integer "pixel color" value. (PIX_MASK_RETAIN, PIX_MASK_DRAW): Portability macros (from macfns.c). (FRAME_X_VISUAL, x_defined_color, DefaultDepthOfScreen): Define with suitable equivalents on W32 and MAC for code sharing. (XDrawLine): Define on MAC for code sharing. (Destroy_Image, Free_Pixmap): Wrappers for code sharing. (IF_LIB_AVAILABLE): Macro to simplify code sharing. (Vx_bitmap_file_path, Vimage_cache_eviction_delay) (x_bitmap_height, x_bitmap_width, x_bitmap_pixmap) (x_reference_bitmap, x_create_bitmap_from_data) (x_create_bitmap_from_file, x_destroy_bitmap) (x_destroy_all_bitmaps, x_create_bitmap_mask) (XGetImage, XPutPixel, XGetPixel, XDestroyImage) (QCascent, QCmargin, QCrelief, QCconversion, QCcolor_symbols) (QCheuristic_mask, QCindex, QCmatrix, QCcolor_adjustment, QCmask) (Qlaplace, Qemboss, Qedge_detection, Qheuristic, Qcenter) (define_image_type, lookup_image_type, valid_image_p) (image_error, enum image_value_type, struct image_keyword) (parse_image_spec, image_spec_value, Fimage_size, Fimage_mask_p) (make_image, free_image, prepare_image_for_display, image_ascent) (four_corners_best, image_background, image_background_transparent) (x_clear_image_1, x_clear_image, x_alloc_image_color) (make_image_cache, free_image_cache, clear_image_cache) (Fclear_image_cache, postprocess_image, lookup_image, cache_image) (forall_images_in_image_cache, x_create_x_image_and_pixmap) (x_destroy_x_image, x_put_x_image, x_find_image_file, slurp_file) (find_image_fsspec, image_load_qt_1, image_load_quicktime) (init_image_func_pointer, image_load_quartz2d) (struct ct_color, init_color_table, free_color_table) (lookup_rgb_color, lookup_pixel_color, colors_in_color_table) (cross_disabled_images, x_to_xcolors, x_from_xcolors) (x_detect_edges, x_emboss, x_laplace, x_edge_detection) (x_disable_image, x_build_heuristic_mask) (XBM support, XPM support, PBM support, PNG support, JPEG support) (TIFF support, GIF support, Ghostscript support): Consolidate image code from xfns.c, w32fns.c, and macfns.c. (syms_of_image): Consolidate image related symbol setup here. (init_image): Consolidate image related initializations here.

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2199 21:03:50 -0600
From: Karl Fogel <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: M-x search-backward-in-time broken...
X-Windows: you'll envy the dead.

In GNU Emacs 51.70.4 (i9986-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of Sat Feb  20 2199 on floss
configured using `configure  --with-x-toolkit=yes'

        The `search-backward-in-time' function appears to be broken in
Emacs 51.70.

        Unfortunately, I can never seem to start the debugger early
enough to catch the error as it happens.  However I have traced the
problem through source by eye, and it looks like `time-forward' can't
handle negative arguments anymore.  This is consistent with other
symptoms: for example, `undo' (which since 51.25 has worked by passing
a negative arg to `time-forward') is also broken.  However, `do' still
works -- it seems that `time-forward' continues to handle positive
arguments just fine.

        No one here-and-now can figure out how to fix the problem,
because the code for `time-forward' is so hairy.  We're using M-x
report-future-emacs-bug to request that you folks include more
comments when you write it (sometime in 2198 as I recall).

        Thanks!

-Karl Fogel   <[e-mail]>


P.S. You'll be pleased to know that since (time-forward N) still works
     for N >= 0, we've used it to pre-emptively update configure.in.
     Emacs now configures and builds on every platform that will ever
     be made.  It wasn't easy, but at least that's one problem out of
     the way for good.  If you'd like the patch, just ask.