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bug#23912: 25.0.95; Abort in gc when working with streams


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#23912: 25.0.95; Abort in gc when working with streams
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:40:44 +0300

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:25:14 -0400
> Cc: 23912@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>     > Richard, do you perhaps remember, or can try to second-guess, why do
>     > we set the abort_on_gc flag inside prin1-to-string?  I mean this
>     > fragment of print.c:
> 
> I responded a few weeks ago, with what I thought I remembered, but I
> seem to have been mistaken.  Alas, I don't know any more now.

I think I've succeeded in understanding this mystery: it's a left-over
from an old GCPRO, which was replaced with an assertion to make sure
GC never happens while this code runs.  And since nowadays GCPRO is a
no-op, we can remove this flag.





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