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: Memory leak in keyboard variables? Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:30:07 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87d4fzh0qc.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228987829 12603 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2008 09:30:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:30:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 11 10:31:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LAhtL-000842-Hn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:31:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39152 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LAhsA-0006rX-3Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:30:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LAhs5-0006rO-1q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:30:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LAhs3-0006pJ-Dr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:30:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41928 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LAhs3-0006pA-Ad for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:30:11 -0500 Original-Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:47609 helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LAhs3-0002JX-06 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:30:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (relay-ext.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 E553C4494A; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:30:08 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: .. If I had heart failure right now, I couldn't be a more fortunate man!! In-Reply-To: <87d4fzh0qc.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:03:39 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:106794 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > Now, input-decode-map is defined in keyboard.c, using DEFVAR_KBOARD. I= t > 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. --=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."