From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Conservative GC isn't safe
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 10:05:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh96us2o2.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dca090ba-1eea-8c4f-1b1c-6edd97915666@dancol.org
> How would you assert dynamically that if an interval is reachable, its
> owning string or buffer must be too?
You don't. You check it statically (by a human).
> It's not enough for the variable holding the reference to the string
> or buffer to be in scope: you have to be sure that the reference
> isn't dead.
It should be: if it's in scope, it's not dead.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-26 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-26 8:11 Conservative GC isn't safe Daniel Colascione
2016-11-26 8:30 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-26 8:33 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-26 9:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 9:04 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-26 9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-11-26 15:21 ` Camm Maguire
2016-11-28 17:51 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-28 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 18:03 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-28 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-28 19:18 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-28 19:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-28 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 19:40 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-28 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 20:09 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-28 19:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-11-28 19:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-26 15:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-26 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 16:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-26 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 18:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-27 6:17 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-11-27 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 9:50 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-11-28 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-27 16:15 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-28 9:36 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-11-28 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 16:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-28 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 17:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-28 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 18:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-28 19:09 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-11-28 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-29 8:49 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-11-28 17:03 ` Björn Lindqvist
2016-11-28 16:13 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-27 16:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-26 19:08 ` Pip Cet
2016-11-27 0:24 ` Paul Eggert
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