From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: User-reserved element in byte code vectors Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 16:21:31 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <85smepfzqo.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> <85ad0wfkms.fsf_-_@junk.nocrew.org> <85oepcdts4.fsf_-_@junk.nocrew.org> <85vfjf9s4j.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> <20040502094316.GB2836@fencepost> <85fzaiakb9.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> <20040503195701.GD21891@fencepost> <85ekpz5twj.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083791318 26349 80.91.224.253 (5 May 2004 21:08:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 21:08:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 23:08:32 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLTd2-0003Kv-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 23:08:32 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLTd2-0004Az-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 23:08:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLTWn-0004bD-NK for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 17:02:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLSyZ-0004KV-ES for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 16:26:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLStZ-0002GW-29 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 16:21:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLStY-0002G2-Es for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 16:21:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1BLStX-00053u-US; Wed, 05 May 2004 16:21:31 -0400 Original-To: Lars Brinkhoff In-reply-to: <85ekpz5twj.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (message from Lars Brinkhoff on 05 May 2004 07:23:40 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22816 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22816 The change you are proposing would eliminate any possibility of storing anything else in the bytecode object. That would be a mistake. Instead we could dedicate slot 7 to a vector of curried args. That would not interfere with other uses of other slots.