bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT).

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Lars.

On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 15:24:20 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> > Emacs-28, emacs started with site-start.el and .emacs.

> > On calling

> >     (parse-partial-sexp 19 18 nil nil s)

> > Emacs surely ought to signal an error, since 18 < 19.  It doesn't,
> > though.  It leaves point at a random position and returns

> >     (0 nil nil nil nil nil 0 nil nil nil nil)

> > This is a bug.

> I've now made this change (and the doc string clarification discussed).
> There are no test failures after the change, and I'm not getting any
> errors when running it normally, either.

Thanks!

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