Bug in skip-chars-forward

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From: Hallvard B Furuseth
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 12:30

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In emacs-18.55 on Sun3-os4, if

	(skip-chars-forward "^\n" (1+ (point-max)))

reaches end-of-buffer (the buffer must not end in newline), emacs
will behave strangely or possibly to hang.  In debug mode, emacs
aborts with fatal error 6.


Hallvard Furuseth
hallvard@ifi.uio.no

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