Re: Consequent CC Mode fix to the release branch or to master?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 17:04:00 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> Hello, Eli.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 18:46:50 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:00:49 +0000
> > > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> > > Whilst fixing bug #59234 (Inappropriate fontification as a type of
> > > function call NSRectFill), I came across inappropriate handling of
> > > whitespace which leads to the Lisp error "Invalid search bound (wrong
> > > side of point)".  This error is likely to occur only rarely, and probably
> > > not in the more used CC Mode modes such as C and C++.
> 
> > > I now have a patch to fix this.  Is it still OK to commit such patches to
> > > the release branch, or would it be preferred to commit it to master?
> 
> > It depends on the patch.  Please show it, so I could have an idea of
> > what it entails.
> 
> OK, here it is:
> 
> CC Mode: Don't do c-backward-syntactic-ws following a forward movement

Thanks.  This kind of change is too much for the release branch at
this point, so I think it should go to master.