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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Comments on display.texi
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:56:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5ekkl15va.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3wtydywa4.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (Kim F. Storm's message of "Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:39:15 +0200")

storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> One of the GNU coding standards is to avoid fixed-allocated tables.
>> Why not malloc them?  You can start them at length 20 and realloc them
>> if they are ever exceeded.
>
> I have now changed it to allocate the tables dynamically.
>
> There is still a limit, but it is now at 64K bitmaps -- anybody
> needing more than that must be doing something wrong :-)

That's what everybody said until Unicode had to be extended to more
than 16bits.

Anyway, I suppose that it will probably keep people quiet for a while.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-29 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-26  0:19 Comments on display.texi Kim F. Storm
2004-09-26 18:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-26 20:38   ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-27 14:53     ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-28 12:40       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-27 14:53     ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-28 12:58       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-28 22:48         ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-29 14:39           ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-29 14:56             ` David Kastrup [this message]

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