From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Module support: No environment in pointer release function Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:33:41 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <082f6c7c-7c0c-8747-8464-e19f7807b786@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1486359234 3809 195.159.176.226 (6 Feb 2017 05:33:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 05:33:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 To: =?UTF-8?Q?Elias_M=c3=a5rtenson?= , emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 06 06:33:48 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cabvw-0000ik-2Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2017 06:33:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45630 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cabw1-00017h-IM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2017 00:33:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54832) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cabvv-00017b-LH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2017 00:33:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cabvr-0004q1-J5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2017 00:33:47 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:37602) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cabvr-0004pD-Cz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2017 00:33:43 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4731A16007E; Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:33:42 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id jyoJSysRPMle; Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:33:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D6D416007F; Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:33:41 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id h856RjmQVfNw; Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:33:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.153.188.248]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 816C916007E; Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:33:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:212018 Archived-At: Elias M=C3=A5rtenson wrote: > In > addition to the pointer itself, the =E2=80=98emacs_env=E2=80=99 pointer= is needed. An > arbitrary =E2=80=98void *data=E2=80=99 pointer would be useful too. Can you package up these pointers into a single data structure, and pass = a=20 pointer to that structure? That's what's usually done in situations like = this,=20 and is why a single 'void *' should suffice.