From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: extract_data_from_object considered dangerous
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 16:53:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh854hx5t.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83woe0p961.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 22 Sep 2019 19:50:30 +0300")
> The original idea was to use the pointer right away, so that GC
> couldn't happen.
Indeed, I think that it might be the case that currently this problem is
only hypothetical, but relying on "the GC probably can't happen now" is
too fragile for my taste.
> If we want to lift this restriction, I think the
> function should return a Lisp object, not a char *.
That's also my impression, but I was wondering is there was a good
reason why it wasn't done this way in the first place.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-22 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-22 13:39 extract_data_from_object considered dangerous Stefan Monnier
2019-09-22 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-22 20:53 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-09-23 2:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
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