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Re: Outdated comment in eval.c?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Outdated comment in eval.c? |
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Wed, 22 Sep 2021 10:09:02 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:18:27 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> The issue is still valid, although it's now more subtle, and 'For' is
> no longer a useful reference. GC can relocate buffers text and string
> data, so the issue nowadays is to be careful with C 'char *' pointers
> to buffer text and string data, and recompute them after every call to
> a function that might trigger a GC.
>
> I will see how to reword the comment, and will probably move it to
> another place, where it is more pertinent.
Now done.