Re: Preventing stack overflows with alloca.

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     Since old_value is not a lisp object here,
>     we would need to fix (hack) GC like this:
> 
>       for (bind = specpdl; bind != specpdl_ptr; bind++)
> 	{
> 	  mark_object (bind->symbol);
> 	  if (bind->func != safe_alloca_unwind)
> 	    mark_object (bind->old_value);
> 	}
> 
> Or else use make_save_value to convert it to a clean Lisp object.
> Then GC won't need changing.

I had forgot about make_save_value.  Yes, we should use that.