From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: scratch/comp-static-data 5aa3db2f11: comp: Add support for compiling elisp constants into static data. Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:15:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <166844679660.19180.3470364122428955894@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20221114172637.78215C0E4C7@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <871qq5hxf9.fsf@yahoo.com> <9c27dd84e3298e2ed979415016f2db75d1cef882.camel@gmail.com> <83zgcobr9x.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2194"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: vibhavp@gmail.com, akrl@sdf.org, luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 20 02:16:29 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1owYwe-0000Fl-G4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:16:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1owYvq-0006yy-PX; Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:15:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1owYvo-0006xa-3G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:15:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1owYvn-0005G8-6g; Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:15:35 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=U83fUV0NZxEgP8Mh7IFCJg7T9lv6c4V3FfjaSaVK0DI=; b=EsxQMrH8d7xK yuKnbse0JPAF3vvEoCwaHTTDGroEvsAX8tssLZui0lNZFXJrPZTgLPKFyjB+LUNrPRFOpPpzGhogU wNXFVshHURq3wOP6Eh1HSCsmOr5BOTVgBPcApcm/84vR6dthxlvWZsYVWSdyKIoAzIdGje/Wo2RVm ld6xEmU2ntvyZlgmcOmJoIB0REfAnyOdt+E03nvbcu9K+0wMF2602now7nCAJSvo7yL5B4Kb3bnVD B+vgPT9eWm7deGl3YFKP7dLQX09kb1tYnA14v7bswIwG7u8AFWRIH3akfGXlauHJ9/E8VE47BdVNs 1VWC9H3yTuLQFQScP8OfNA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1owYvl-00044o-F4; Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:15:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83zgcobr9x.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:28:26 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:300222 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I'm not aware of any aspect of the change which would cause crashes in > these cases. It is possible I misunderstood what the change was for. The message seemed to say that it would put the values of variables defined with `defconst' into read-only memory. If there are cases in which that affects the program's execution, I expect it will cause a failure of some sort in those same cases. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)