From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Building Emacs overflowed pure space Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:11:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7dbe73ed0607180138x35e9d9bft3e42f20cb369795c@mail.gmail.com> <200607181929.k6IJTZN9028639@jane.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153433548 6674 80.91.229.2 (20 Jul 2006 22:12:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:12:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mathias.dahl@gmail.com, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, ralphm@members.fsf.org, mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 21 00:12:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3gkq-0006lZ-V0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:12:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3gkq-0002Vy-6l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G3gkJ-0002Np-FI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:11:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G3gkH-0002Mv-O6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:11:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3gkH-0002Ms-FY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:11:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G3gkX-0002aL-Oe; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22FB12CEB82; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:11:48 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 804C4445C; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:11:41 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 646D14C6DEA; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:11:41 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:46:07 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57399 Archived-At: > I doubt it'll make any difference. When reading the .elc file, the > symbols will get copied anyway for the reason that they're > not interned. > If the table that arranges for all references to one symbol within > a function to come out as the same symbol is preserved between functions, > that ought to do the job. > However, this might be inconvenient to do. Indeed: it make conflate two different symbols into one and thus re-introduce the error that the use of uninterned symbol is often meant to solve. Stefan