Convenient macro to check whether the buffer is live.

* buffer.h (BUFFER_LIVE_P): New macro.
* alloc.c, buffer.c, editfns.c, insdel.c, lread.c, marker.c:
* minibuf.c, print.c, process.c, window.c, xdisp.c: Use it.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/process.c b/src/process.c
index 0cc9bc353a1..0ae68567d6b 100644
--- a/src/process.c
+++ b/src/process.c
@@ -5298,7 +5298,7 @@ read_process_output (Lisp_Object proc, register int channel)
     }
 
   /* If no filter, write into buffer if it isn't dead.  */
-  else if (!NILP (p->buffer) && !NILP (BVAR (XBUFFER (p->buffer), name)))
+  else if (!NILP (p->buffer) && BUFFER_LIVE_P (XBUFFER (p->buffer)))
     {
       Lisp_Object old_read_only;
       ptrdiff_t old_begv, old_zv;
@@ -6722,7 +6722,7 @@ status_notify (struct Lisp_Process *deleting_process)
 
               /* Avoid error if buffer is deleted
                  (probably that's why the process is dead, too) */
-              if (NILP (BVAR (XBUFFER (buffer), name)))
+              if (!BUFFER_LIVE_P (XBUFFER (buffer)))
                 continue;
               Fset_buffer (buffer);