From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 34404@debbugs.gnu.org, braungb88@gmail.com
Subject: bug#34404: 26.1; Finalizer in hash table run early?
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:42:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83blfjp4wg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tutbjj1w.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:33:15 +0100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, 34404@debbugs.gnu.org, braungb88@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:33:15 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > The question is how do you define "100%"? The Emacs GC is
> > conservative in the sense that when there's a doubt whether an object
> > _could_ be still referenced, we mark it so it doesn't get swept.
>
> When is Emacs in doubt? :-)
Mainly when we find what looks like Lisp objects on the C stack.
> If we could say something about this in the manual (or the
> `garbage-collect' doc string), I think that'd be helpful -- people
> do seem to think that calling `garbage-collect' is guaranteed to
> collect all the garbage.
Fine by me, please feel free to suggest such wording.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-27 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-09 13:39 bug#34404: 26.1; Finalizer in hash table run early? Braun Gábor
2020-11-26 12:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-26 12:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-11-26 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-26 15:45 ` martin rudalics
2020-11-27 7:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-27 8:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-27 8:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-27 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-11-29 10:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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