From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: VIRT_ADDR_VARIES
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:29:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBBFBF7.2030107@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ROSSi-0003lj-V4@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 11/10/11 03:06, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> It could be that a test against my_edata was just a means,
> but we should be sure it was
Yes, I'm sure it was a means. I've read the code carefully, and
remember this part well. That's why the VIRT_ADDR_VARIES implementation
is also a valid one.
> isn't it dangerous to have an externally visible symbol with a
> name such as `pure'?
Emacs has been built with an extern symbol 'pure'
for decades, on many platforms. And platform implementers
would be unlikely to usurp that particular name anyway.
So we should be safe.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-10 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-06 17:18 VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Andreas Schwab
2011-11-07 1:50 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Paul Eggert
2011-11-07 8:38 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Andreas Schwab
2011-11-07 23:23 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Paul Eggert
2011-11-08 8:56 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Andreas Schwab
2011-11-08 17:34 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Paul Eggert
2011-11-08 18:38 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Andreas Schwab
2011-11-08 21:17 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Paul Eggert
2011-11-08 22:06 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Andreas Schwab
2011-11-09 17:44 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Paul Eggert
2011-11-09 21:32 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Andreas Schwab
2011-11-10 8:17 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Paul Eggert
2011-11-10 9:29 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Andreas Schwab
2011-11-10 16:19 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Paul Eggert
2011-11-10 11:06 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-10 11:20 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Andreas Schwab
2011-11-10 16:29 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2011-11-10 16:43 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-10 16:50 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Paul Eggert
2011-11-10 18:06 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-14 4:57 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Paul Eggert
2011-11-10 4:05 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-10 5:40 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Paul Eggert
2011-11-10 17:05 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Andreas Schwab
2011-11-10 17:15 ` VIRT_ADDR_VARIES Paul Eggert
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