Re: Info reader fails to find cross-references to anchors

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 21:03:25 +0100
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> I thought that this method was satisfactory, but I admit that I hadn't
> realised that anchors positions present a problem. The problem is
> reduced because we deliberately start with a small slack (4, not 1000)
> before running the end-of-line conversion, to encourage the conversion
> to happen early. There will only be a problem if a node containing an
> anchor is found before the conversion happens, which is possible for
> the first node in a file, which is likely the Top node which is
> unlikely to contain an anchor. The other time when I imagine things
> could go wrong would be for an anchor in the first node in a subfile
> of a split file. Have you had either of those problems or other
> problems happen when testing?

No, I didn't actually see such problems, but the code looks fragile in
that respect.  I don't think we can rely on no anchor references in
the Top node.