From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: When should ralloc.c be used? Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:56:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831szqhbc2.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1itt79z.fsf_-_@users.sourceforge.net> <7baa18d4-2b09-caa8-005e-29008a383ad1@cs.ucla.edu> <83mvhwrgd5.fsf@gnu.org> <8539f38f-9a11-44c3-4de7-bb974c96206c@cs.ucla.edu> <838ttfnmev.fsf@gnu.org> <837f8znk8f.fsf@gnu.org> <83zilvm2ud.fsf@gnu.org> <83r377m0i8.fsf@gnu.org> <83eg36n6v5.fsf@gnu.org> <83funm5j1l.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1477328349 22814 195.159.176.226 (24 Oct 2016 16:59:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:59:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 24 18:59:04 2016 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 1byiaP-0004SP-4b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:58:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48249 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byiaR-00085C-Gm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51140) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byiY5-0003WS-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:56:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byiY5-0001y2-65 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:56:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52200) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byiY4-0001wx-4G; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:56:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1byiY3-0002gb-G7; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:56:31 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 24 Oct 2016 08:45:04 -0400) 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:208727 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I must be missing something: you seem to know about past severe problems > we've had because of fragmentation, whereas I can't remember any > such occurrence. Fragmentation caused problems bad enough to motivate me to write ralloc. But I don't know about the present situation. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.