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Re: Changes in GC and in pure space (was: [Emacs-diffs] master 5d4dd55:


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Changes in GC and in pure space (was: [Emacs-diffs] master 5d4dd55: Fix lifetime error in previous patch)
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 10:47:27 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
After all, these two issues are not
terribly urgent to fix (unlike, say, the unexec thingy).

As it happens, the issue with hash tables is bound up with the unexec thingy, in that portable dumping currently can screw up hash tables with user-defined tests. I discovered this over the weekend while looking into Pip Cet's proposed changes to how portable dumping treats hash tables, and have a contrived test case (see attached) that causes gethash to fail with "Lisp nesting exceeds ‘max-lisp-eval-depth’" in an Emacs started via a portable dump, even though the same gethash works fine before dumping. I plan to install a workaround for this soon. So all in all I think the hash-table changes should improve Emacs stability even if we were planning to split off a new release branch next week, much less September.

I take your point that getting rid of pure space might be a bridge too far now - unless someone can show that pure space also runs afoul of portable dumping.

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