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Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:

> "...it is a good idea to make a marker point nowhere if you are sure you
> don=E2=80=99t need it any more.  Markers that can no longer be accessed a=
re
> eventually removed (*note Garbage Collection::)."
>
> I asked on /r/emacs about this but never got a firm answer; some thought
> that they are never collected and require manual clearing, others
> thought that ones that go out-of-scope are eventually collected and that
> it's not typically necessary to clear them manually.  I also recall
> seeing some code recently that didn't manually clear the markers it
> created, so I wonder if that is true.

The are not collected as long as the buffer they point to is alive. If
they are not attached to any buffer, they are marked for garbage
collection.

Regards,