From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Memory leak in keyboard variables?
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:30:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je8wqnukio.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d4fzh0qc.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:03:39 -0500")
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
> Now, input-decode-map is defined in keyboard.c, using DEFVAR_KBOARD. It
> is a Lisp_Misc_Kboard_Objfwd object, and if I'm not mistaken, such
> objects are not garbage-collected.
All Objfwd types are not real objects on their own, but static markers
to tell the evaluator to look elsewhere for the value. If the
pointed-to object is still live then it will not be collected, of
course.
> When the terminal is killed, are its keyboard's Lisp_Misc_Kboard_Objfwd
> objects freed?
All such objects are allocated only once before dumping.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-11 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-11 3:03 Memory leak in keyboard variables? Chong Yidong
2008-12-11 9:30 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2008-12-11 15:09 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-11 20:43 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-13 14:19 ` Markus Triska
2008-12-13 19:09 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-16 14:11 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-17 4:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-20 1:50 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-20 15:34 ` Jan Djärv
2008-12-20 17:09 ` Markus Triska
2008-12-20 17:45 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-20 18:37 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-20 20:41 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-11 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-15 1:26 Kenichi Handa
2008-12-15 3:16 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-16 4:31 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-12-16 2:14 Chetan Pandya
2008-12-16 3:33 ` Chong Yidong
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