From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29804: 27.0; Unclear NEWS item: pointer instead of integer Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 09:48:59 +0000 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <9339a40e-b102-4452-aa57-2dd8355441c9@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------FF111153C6831E6B87615341" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1514800108 19448 195.159.176.226 (1 Jan 2018 09:48:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 09:48:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 Cc: 29804-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 01 10:48:23 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVwhZ-0003zl-Bw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks, I installed the attached, which I hope is clear enough now, and am boldly closing the bug report. --------------FF111153C6831E6B87615341 Content-Type: text/x-patch; name="0001-etc-NEWS-Improve-fcheck-pointer-bounds-wording.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*0="0001-etc-NEWS-Improve-fcheck-pointer-bounds-wording.patch" >From 973d10a34b23f2ce5acc00a90ec9767e6237fefa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 01:44:58 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Improve -fcheck-pointer-bounds wording. --- etc/NEWS | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index dd907ab..3ba95c1 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -38,8 +38,9 @@ interpreter or modules that it uses. If your platform supports it you can enable it when configuring, e.g., './configure CFLAGS="-g3 -O2 -mmpx -fcheck-pointer-bounds"' on Intel MPX platforms. -** Emacs now normally uses a pointer type instead of an integer type -for the fundamental word in the Emacs Lisp interpreter, to help +** Emacs now normally uses a C pointer type instead of a C integer +type to implement Lisp_Object, which is the fundamental machine word +type internal to the Emacs Lisp interpreter. This change aims to catch typos and support -fcheck-pointer-bounds. The 'configure' option --enable-check-lisp-object-type is therefore no longer as useful and so is no longer enabled by default in developer builds, -- 2.7.4 --------------FF111153C6831E6B87615341--