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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r117912: Minor improvements to new	stack-allocated Lisp objects.
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:44:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mw9ryat8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <541FC4DB.3050307@yandex.ru>

> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:42:35 +0400
> From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > We should also audit uses of make_local_vector, make_local_string, and build_local_string to make sure
> > that none of them are in loops that could blow the stack.  I think most uses of these are OK but
> > some are questionable.
> 
> SAFE_ALLOCA and friends has exactly the same problems, and I don't see the way to make it
> absolutely safe with an existing implementations of alloca.  This applies to VLAs as well.

We indeed have a few calls to SAFE_ALLOCA and SAFE_NALLOCA inside loops.

> Someday we will be able to utilize -fsplit-stack; it may be reasonable to define
> USE_LOCAL_LISP_OBJECTS only if -fsplit-stack is also supported.

AFAIU, -fsplit-stack is a mixed blessing at best when calling code
that was not compiled with that switch (a.k.a. "external libraries").



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-22 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1XVpwf-0005xe-7w@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2014-09-22  5:08 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r117912: Minor improvements to new stack-allocated Lisp objects Stefan Monnier
2014-09-22  5:40   ` Paul Eggert
2014-09-22  6:42     ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-09-22  8:19       ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-09-22 12:57       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-22 15:00         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-22 14:44       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-09-22 15:32       ` Paul Eggert
2014-09-22 16:04         ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-09-22 19:09           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-23  5:53             ` Paul Eggert

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