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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: SYNC_INPUT and 23.1.
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:51:35 -0400
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    Even with SYNC_INPUT, atimer functions (except poll_for_input)
    may still call malloc in the signal handler context.  So
    emacs_blocked_malloc etc. were actually meaningful even in
    SYNC_INPUT environments.

Why is that?  Can it be eliminated?