From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Dynamic loading progress Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 05:46:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83lh9p1iox.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y4du80xo.fsf@gnu.org> <837fld6lps.fsf@gnu.org> <83610w5o97.fsf@gnu.org> <564FACF5.2080601@cs.ucla.edu> <564FBAA7.5030306@cs.ucla.edu> <5650F9CD.9030707@cs.ucla.edu> <83oaem2ebu.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvu62cst.fsf@gnu.org> <56520E5F.706@cs.ucla.edu> <831tbh3ket.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnalzb1i.fsf@tromey.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448250423 24678 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2015 03:47:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 03:47:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, p.stephani2@gmail.com, aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, dancol@dancol.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 23 04:46:53 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a0i5b-0003B3-PC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 04:46:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58500 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0i5c-0004ff-1E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 22:46:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36289) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0i5Z-0004fO-5t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 22:46:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0i5V-0007aZ-WD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 22:46:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:37981) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0i5V-0007aQ-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 22:46:45 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NY900L000S9IJ00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 05:41:39 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NY900A6Y0XFXQ90@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 05:41:39 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87bnalzb1i.fsf@tromey.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195096 Archived-At: > From: Tom Tromey > Cc: Philipp Stephani , aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, tzz@lifelogs.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 19:47:53 -0700 > > >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: > > Eli> Why? Why cannot emacs-module.c expose an allocator, which modules > Eli> will then use as a sole source of memory? > > Commonly a module will use some other library, which will do whatever it > does. Yes, of course. The intent is to provide an allocator for Emacs-related data.