From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, pipcet@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Failing to GC killed buffers considered harmful
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:24:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mu7z3qxe.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5089e383-7b34-d9d6-a002-26312c5f3066@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:06:56 -0700)
> Cc: pipcet@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:06:56 -0700
>
> And yes, you do have to dump killed buffers. If we have a Lisp reference
> to a buffer and we can't dump buffers, what do we do? Fail the dump?
> Replace the reference with the integer 5?
I don't think we really have a Lisp reference to a killed buffer. We
just have some random pointer to it in a random place on the stack.
> Yes, if we just remove the assertion, we'll end up with a dead buffer
> that's constantly marked because it lives in the pdumper image. So what?
If there's no better way, sure. That's easy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-29 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-29 14:23 Failing to GC killed buffers considered harmful Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-29 16:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-29 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-29 19:06 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-03-29 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-03-29 16:46 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-29 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-29 19:07 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-29 19:12 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-03-29 19:25 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-29 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-30 15:36 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-30 15:53 ` dancol
2020-03-30 17:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-30 17:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-30 18:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-30 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-30 19:14 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-03-30 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-31 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-31 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-31 21:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-31 14:58 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-31 16:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-31 18:23 ` Pip Cet
2020-03-31 19:20 ` Stefan Monnier
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