> From: Jess Balint <jbalint@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:52:55 -0600
>
> Dynamic modules are really cool so far, but I think finalizers should
> not be mandatory for user pointers (alloc.c):
>
> #ifdef HAVE_MODULES
> else if (mblk->markers[i].m.u_any.type == Lisp_Misc_User_Ptr)
> {
> struct Lisp_User_Ptr *uptr = &mblk->markers[i].m.u_user_ptr;
> uptr->finalizer (uptr->p); <----- should NULL-check first
> }
> #endif
>
> c.f. https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/src/alloc.c#L6893
Can you tell more about the use case where you needed this change? A
user-pointer holds a pointer to some unspecified data, and that data
needs to be free'd when the user-pointer object is GC'ed; failure to
do so will cause memory leaks. When is the above incorrect, or gets
in your way?
Thanks.