Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer'

[Stefan Monnier]

> This is not a problem in itself, since we could simply not do merges.
> But, then that also would greatly reduce the prospects for ever merging
> back.  Putting these changes on the trunk makes it possible to keep the
> branch relatively up-to-date, making it simpler to merge into trunk when
> the time comes.

Exactly.  And since this can make the main code worse, it's good to make
up for it by providing scripts that automate some tasks, e.g. generate
the var declarations automatically from the DEFVARs.


        Stefan