From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: luangruo@yahoo.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Outdated comment in eval.c?
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 10:09:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o88lw0hd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zgs6zc24.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:18:27 +0300)
> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:18:27 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> The issue is still valid, although it's now more subtle, and 'For' is
> no longer a useful reference. GC can relocate buffers text and string
> data, so the issue nowadays is to be careful with C 'char *' pointers
> to buffer text and string data, and recompute them after every call to
> a function that might trigger a GC.
>
> I will see how to reword the comment, and will probably move it to
> another place, where it is more pertinent.
Now done.
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[not found] <87h7ee3b7d.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2021-09-21 2:37 ` Outdated comment in eval.c? Po Lu
2021-09-21 6:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-22 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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