From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jess Balint <jbalint@gmail.com>
Cc: 22737@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22737: 25.1; Finalizer should be optional in dynamic modules
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 05:40:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fuwiixnm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+fD2U34Cm0OCLD3uMeTmaXGD4cZG1xFX27hj0jCTG62hKq1_Q@mail.gmail.com> (message from Jess Balint on Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:47:12 -0600)
> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:47:12 -0600
> From: Jess Balint <jbalint@gmail.com>
> Cc: 22737@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> If the data is unspecified it doesn't *necessarily* need to be freed. If I return a pointer to some global data then
> I need to create a no-op finalizer just to please this GC code. In some cases I will be managing memory a bit
> more manually and don't care to have Emacs doing anything for me.
I don't think I follow. How can you manage memory manually when Emacs
does GC whenever it feels like it? The memory of the objects it GCs
will simply be leaked if you don't have a finalizer.
Can you describe a specific use case where a finalizer would not be
needed?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-24 3:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-18 21:52 bug#22737: 25.1; Finalizer should be optional in dynamic modules Jess Balint
2016-02-19 9:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-23 22:47 ` Jess Balint
2016-02-24 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-02-26 16:17 ` Jess Balint
2016-02-26 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-26 18:53 ` Jess Balint
2016-02-26 21:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-26 21:51 ` Jess Balint
2016-02-26 21:55 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-02-29 20:28 ` Jess Balint
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