Fix glitches caused by addition of psec to timers.

* etc/NEWS: Document timer format change.
* lisp/image.el (image-animate-timer):
* lisp/time.el (display-time-world-timer):
Use timer--function and timer--args rather than raw access to
timer vector.
* lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el (gnus-article-stop-animations):
Use timer--function rather than raw access to timer vector.

Fixes: debbugs:12430

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog
index 11e7e5ca108..20ded2fd847 100644
--- a/etc/ChangeLog
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2012-09-13  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+        * NEWS: Document timer format change (Bug#12430).
+
 2012-09-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
         Simplify, document, and port floating-point (Bug#12381).
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index a7388c4e9fa..eb5a2ed6660 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -101,6 +101,11 @@ machines.  Other functions that use this format, such as
 file-attributes and format-time-string, have been changed accordingly.
 Old-format time stamps are still accepted.
 
+** The format of timers in timer-list and timer-idle-list is now
+[HIGH-SECONDS LOW-SECONDS USECS PSECS REPEAT-DELAY FUNCTION ARGS IDLE-DELAY].
+The PSECS slot is new, and uses picosecond resolution.  It can be
+accessed via the new timer--psecs accessor.
+
 ** Emacs now generates backtraces on fatal errors.
 On encountering a fatal error, Emacs now outputs a textual description
 of the fatal signal, and a short backtrace on platforms like glibc