From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Conservative GC isn't safe
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:55:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h96rzjhw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16D21C8B-B91E-497D-BA1A-B5A3FC9D1B13@raeburn.org> (message from Ken Raeburn on Mon, 28 Nov 2016 04:50:56 -0500)
> From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>
> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 04:50:56 -0500
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> But if the caller never refers to the object again, it’s certainly possible that it wouldn’t keep around any copies of the Lisp_Object value, even in other registers, once it’s set up the arguments for the one function call that uses the object. If the caller also created the object, there may not be any other references left.
One of the callers should still hold the reference.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-28 15:55 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 [this message]
2016-11-27 16:15 ` Paul Eggert
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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