Re: MPS signals and Emacs

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

On 2024-04-22 00:19, Gerd Möllmann wrote:
>> I assume that MPS is not being used to allocate any of Emacs's own
>> objects, as copying collectors are incompatible with Emacs's habit of
>> squirreling away pointers inside integers.
> It's excactly that, a (mostly) copying collector for Emacs :-).

Since Emacs uses a conservative collector, how can MPS move Emacs 
objects? MPS can't know which words are pointers and which are not, so 
it can't update pointers when Emacs objects move.