Re: 23.0.60; Assuming errstring unibyte is incorrect and leads to Emacs crashes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:13:06 +0900
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> +     if (! EQ (Faref (errstring, make_number (1)), make_number ('/')))
> +       {
> +         int c;
> +
> +         str = (char *) SDATA (errstring);
> +         c = STRING_CHAR (str, 0);
> +         Faset (errstring, 0, make_number (DOWNCASE (c)));
> +       }

Can we explain in a comment what is special about a slash as the
second character of the error message?