From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master d582356: * src/fns.c (Frandom): Handle bignum `limit`s
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2021 19:47:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834khmua8e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOqdjBfBcn_Kxsj6GdEvwfdJAg2ut7EgZDF0t-v4EH6VWrnqcQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Pip Cet on Sun, 7 Mar 2021 17:23:04 +0000)
> From: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 17:23:04 +0000
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > > > How do you know which functions to tag?
> > >
> > > That's the part I wasn't volunteering for :-) We'd have to do that
> > > manually, but we wouldn't have to do it all at once.
> > I don't see how we can do that, without some methodical procedure.
>
> Incrementally?
What does this mean in practice, though? Do you try tagging one
function after another, or do you have some guidelines which ones to
tag and which not to tag?
> > > But usually there will already be a comment in those functions
> > > explaining that they must not call GC, right?
> > No, I think these are rare exceptions rather than the rule.
>
> So we can cover these rare exceptions, at least, converting an
> ambiguous and hard-to-grep comment into an unambiguous macro
> invocation? I don't really see the cons, though it's not as great as
> automatic tagging of functions would be...
Maybe there are no cons, but there are also no pro's: covering a small
fraction of the problem means the problem is still with us.
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[not found] ` <20210305170957.AF99920E1B@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2021-03-05 19:42 ` master d582356: * src/fns.c (Frandom): Handle bignum `limit`s Pip Cet
2021-03-05 19:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-05 20:13 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-05 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-06 7:42 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-06 8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-06 9:44 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-06 10:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-06 13:22 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-06 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-07 13:27 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-07 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-07 14:21 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-07 15:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-07 17:23 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-07 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-03-07 18:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-07 19:54 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-03-07 19:55 ` Pip Cet
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