From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: valid_pointer_p Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:45:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154169984 5904 80.91.229.2 (29 Jul 2006 10:46:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:46:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 29 12:46:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6mKp-0002kE-J4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:46:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6mKp-0005D3-5c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:46:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6mKc-0005CY-Je for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:46:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6mKa-0005Bq-Sv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:46:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6mKa-0005Bm-Od for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:46:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G6mMi-00014o-Sy; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:48:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FCB9F5A7; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:45:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii X-Yow: My mind is a potato field... In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:27:07 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57777 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Can someone ``in the know'' please explain what clever idea is behind > the function valid_pointer_p, and whether that idea is supposed to be > portable? While I agree that the function is non-portable at best, it is only used for debugging (called via safe_debug_print by some gdb macros), nothing inside Emacs is calling it. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."