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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Conservative GC isn't safe
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 08:15:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e5c928f-8130-08a6-d72d-1b64cc022846@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <805F5A19-BFAF-4CA4-AAD6-497C6D554830@raeburn.org>

Ken Raeburn wrote:
>> > Indeed.  Hans Boehm's done a fair bit of research in this issue,
>> > including discussing the underlying assumptions and arguing that
>> > compilers should (and usually do) guarantee those assumptions.

> I’d be surprised if that held reliably when the last use of a Lisp_Object in some function extracts an object pointer and then never references the Lisp_Object as such ever again.

That's not a problem for Emacs, since the Emacs GC marks the object either way.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-27 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-26  8:11 Conservative GC isn't safe Daniel Colascione
2016-11-26  8:30 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-26  8:33   ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-26  9:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26  9:04       ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-26  9:24         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 15:05         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-26 15:21           ` Camm Maguire
2016-11-28 17:51           ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-28 18:00             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 18:03               ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-28 18:50                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 18:03             ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-28 19:18               ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-28 19:33                 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-28 19:37                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 19:40                   ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-28 20:03                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 20:09                       ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-28 19:26               ` Andreas Schwab
2016-11-28 19:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-26 15:03   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-26 15:12     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 16:29       ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-26 16:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 18:43           ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-27  6:17     ` Ken Raeburn
2016-11-27 15:39       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28  9:50         ` Ken Raeburn
2016-11-28 15:55           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-27 16:15       ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-11-28  9:36         ` Ken Raeburn
2016-11-28 15:55           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 16:15             ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-28 17:37               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 17:49                 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-28 17:57                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 18:05                     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-28 19:09                 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-11-28 19:33                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-29  8:49                     ` Ken Raeburn
2016-11-28 17:03             ` Björn Lindqvist
2016-11-28 16:13           ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-27 16:52       ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-26 19:08 ` Pip Cet
2016-11-27  0:24   ` Paul Eggert

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