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> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:57:28 -0500
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > From: Qiang Guo <qguo@ualberta.ca>
> > Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:05:54 -0700
> > 
> > 
> > pointer to the next slot in b->strings ?
> 
> Which is another way of saying "linked list".

And more importantly, this explains why NEXT_FREE_LISP_STRING is
called like that.