From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Doc strings starting with a line break Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:59:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87lgyp16vt.fsf@linux-m68k.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474218016 16220 195.159.176.226 (18 Sep 2016 17:00:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 17:00:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 18 19:00:12 2016 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 1blfRl-00039l-48 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:00:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50887 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blfRj-0008WS-FV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 13:00:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44499) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blfRA-0008Gc-9f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blfR5-0000NF-Bz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:59:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:35705) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blfR5-0000MB-5C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:59:23 -0400 Original-Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3scZxM3w5cz3hjZV; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:59:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3scZxM2HSrzvkhR; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:59:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5gbNBR2VTGpk; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:59:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Info: 1T6t/jcqWkUi8Kv3oGQekXIa8z0Zw7CD9rP0IBnE4UWCJv6lcdZbEk+kG8G+jLE3 Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-22-57.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.22.57]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:59:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1108B2C3D1E; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:59:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: I'll eat ANYTHING that's BRIGHT BLUE!! In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:58:23 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 212.18.0.10 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:207567 Archived-At: On Sep 18 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote: > There's a special hack in the Lisp reader which reads such strings as > the constant 0 (under some circumstances) so that we don't allocate > memory for those strings which will soon after be replaced by > a reference to some part of the DOC file (via Snarf-documentation). That feature is only used in elc files, though (and some el files that are explicitly loaded noncompiled like loaddefs.el). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."