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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk
Subject: Re: Calling Lisp from undo.c's record_* functions
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:09:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvegfoigxp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8337w4bj53.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 17 Nov 2015 20:00:56 +0200")

> Did you take a look at subst-char-in-region?  It calls
> prepare_to_modify_buffer from within a loop which seems to assume that
> (a) gap position doesn't move, and (b) that pointer into buffer text
> is valid across the call to prepare_to_modify_buffer.  GC could
> invalidate both assumptions, no?
[...]
> Bottom line: I think all the functions that manipulate the gap should
> be carefully audited to identify any potential problem with this
> approach.

prepare_to_modify_buffer runs before-change-functions, so it's been
running Elisp code for many years.  Maybe there are still problems
lurking, but I'm not too worried and they'd have to be fixed regardless
of what we do with run_undoable_change.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-17 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-16 16:46 Calling Lisp from undo.c's record_* functions Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-16 21:51 ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-16 22:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-17 12:14   ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-17 13:46     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-17 14:42       ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-17 15:40         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-17 16:24           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-17 16:49             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-17 17:05               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-17 17:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-17 18:00                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-17 19:09                     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-11-17 19:22                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-17 21:05                     ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-17 21:02               ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-18  2:55                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-18 12:26                   ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-17 16:35         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-17 20:52           ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-18  3:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-18  9:56               ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-18 10:49                 ` David Kastrup
2015-11-18 17:30                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-17 16:40     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-17 16:51       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-17 19:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-17 21:35           ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-18  2:52           ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-18  3:49             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-18 12:31               ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-18 17:49                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-19  1:49                   ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-19 10:16                   ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-19 15:53                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-19 17:49                       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-19 17:58                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-19 18:17                           ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-22 21:44                       ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-22 22:41                         ` John Wiegley
2015-11-23 17:29                           ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-23  3:37                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-23 17:28                           ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-25 17:43                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 22:51                               ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-26 10:27                               ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-17 21:13       ` Phillip Lord

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