From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Overlays as an AA-tree Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 00:41:42 +0300 Message-ID: <83mvarf0bt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d1jylv43.fsf@fastmail.com> <87shnppspb.fsf@hochschule-trier.de> <87o9yc9v30.fsf@hochschule-trier.de> <87a89vaes3.fsf@hochschule-trier.de> <87efz7n0g5.fsf@fastmail.com> <877f4uah6i.fsf@hochschule-trier.de> <83k28u1uyz.fsf@gnu.org> <871suxs9ad.fsf@hochschule-trier.de> <837f4pxpdc.fsf@gnu.org> <877f4lls9e.fsf@hochschule-trier.de> <838tp0q3k8.fsf@gnu.org> <87vas4owus.fsf@luca> <87r32rpfhv.fsf@luca> <87vas07zdn.fsf@luca> <877f1xu4ra.fsf@luca> <83bmr8hfd2.fsf@gnu.org> <87tw4z12z4.fsf@luca> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1494020567 16472 195.159.176.226 (5 May 2017 21:42:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 21:42:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Politz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 05 23:42:41 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1d6kzo-00046e-TB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 May 2017 23:42:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49140 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d6kzt-0000FV-0n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 May 2017 17:42:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46716) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d6kzL-00008g-UN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 May 2017 17:42:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d6kzI-0000Ch-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 May 2017 17:42:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41423) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d6kzI-0000Cc-PL; Fri, 05 May 2017 17:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1641 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1d6kzH-0000m8-VL; Fri, 05 May 2017 17:42:08 -0400 In-reply-to: <87tw4z12z4.fsf@luca> (message from Andreas Politz on Fri, 05 May 2017 22:08:15 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214594 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Politz > Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 22:08:15 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Why do you think quitting might be a problem? > > If it happens while memory is dynamically allocated, while adjusting the > overlays for insertions/deletions. The usual way of preventing such problems, if they are real, is to have an unwind-protect function which releases any allocated resources when there's a quit.