From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] src/process.c: remove unnecessary setters Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 09:05:11 +0300 Message-ID: <83wp8yev6w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87shjnmeag.fsf@SoraLaptop> <87tw43t94q.fsf@SoraLaptop> <39094a23-3884-68b6-5633-25a6231460f5@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496124340 1808 195.159.176.226 (30 May 2017 06:05:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 06:05:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 30 08:05:37 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dFaHg-0000NG-Ot for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 May 2017 08:05:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51648 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFaHm-0005Mr-5u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 May 2017 02:05:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50774) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFaHF-0005LL-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2017 02:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFaHC-0004fv-4V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2017 02:05:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43377) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFaHC-0004fq-0n; Tue, 30 May 2017 02:05:06 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1732 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dFaHB-0004ig-37; Tue, 30 May 2017 02:05:05 -0400 In-reply-to: <39094a23-3884-68b6-5633-25a6231460f5@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 29 May 2017 22:19:32 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215345 Archived-At: > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 22:19:32 -0700 > Cc: Dmitry Antipov , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Robert Cochran wrote: > > Especially given that in 2015, INTERNAL_FIELD was removed (according to > > ChangeLog.2 at any rate), it looks like the reason for the functions > > removed to be abstracted away has long since become irrelevant. > > Thanks for looking into this. I had forgotten the details. I assume nobody needs > those getters and setters any more, although it'd be nice to hear from Dmitry. > I'll CC: him. AFAIR, the idea was to help migrate Emacs to a better GC implementation. Not sure if that plan is still on Dmitry's or someone's todo, or whether we want this to be easier in the future. We have similar functions for other Lisp objects, for similar reasons.