From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to remove INTERNAL_FIELD? Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:37:48 +0300 Message-ID: <83lhhj10mb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lhhjuq26.fsf@gmail.com> <5538C48F.2020005@cs.ucla.edu> <87fv7rupcc.fsf@gmail.com> <5538C6C0.2000609@cs.ucla.edu> <83sibr15ac.fsf@gnu.org> <878udjun89.fsf@gmail.com> <83pp6v14cy.fsf@gnu.org> <87sibr84hb.fsf@gmail.com> <83oamf12ax.fsf@gnu.org> <87fv7rqcc7.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429792719 26751 80.91.229.3 (23 Apr 2015 12:38:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:38:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Oleh Krehel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 14:38:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YlGOT-0006ws-Db for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:38:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlGOS-0005Kr-Bh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:38:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56542) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlGO9-0005KV-HS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:37:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlGO6-0007bG-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:37:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:56361) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlGO5-0007b2-No for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:37:49 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NN900I00ERUKT00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:37:47 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NN900IF7F2ZBPB0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:37:47 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87fv7rqcc7.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:185808 Archived-At: > From: Oleh Krehel > Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:05:28 +0200 > > Is there anything else that needs to be done before merging? Please wait for the discussion of this issue to settle down: > Wasn't that underscore introduced for the concurrency branch? E.g., > see KVAR and BVAR macros. I think the idea was to prevent people from > writing code that directly accesses these fields, which is bad for > concurrency. It's possible that we will want the underscore to be left alone, at least in some structures.