From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r117987: * internals.texi (Stack-allocated Objects): Describe this feature. Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:49:55 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87wq8kj3bw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <542B0156.1040001@cs.ucla.edu> <83y4t0kiu4.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412106649 31402 80.91.229.3 (30 Sep 2014 19:50:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:50:49 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 30 21:50:42 2014 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 1XZ3RY-00031U-TD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:50:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45668 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ3RY-0006mD-Jj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36756) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ3R9-0006lc-O5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:50:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ3R4-0000uH-6B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:50:15 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39118) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ3R4-0000sz-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ3R1-0002la-RQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:50:07 +0200 Original-Received: from x2f3b83d.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.243.184.61]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:50:07 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by x2f3b83d.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:50:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f3b83d.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:chqgM3jkWiv2GJpfb88fLI44tB0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:174890 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:15:34 -0700 >> From: Paul Eggert >> >> Regardless of whether we use declaration-style macros, there is one >> thing I'd like to change: the macro names. > > Yes, the names are not helpful. > >> These macros are not about *scope*; they are about *lifetime*. How >> about the prefix "auto_" (from the C keyword 'auto') rather than >> "scope_"? Or maybe "block_" because it's block lifetime? ("auto_" >> is shorter....) > > Or maybe "alloca_*", as in alloca_string, alloca_list1, etc. alloca is "to end of function". Language-supported dynamic allocations are "to end of block". That's not quite the same. -- David Kastrup