Re: Not protecting Lisp objects from GC

[Gerd Möllmann]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Anyone, please stop doing this. It's *BAD*.
>
> Gerd,
>
> No one is disagreeing with you, at least not IMO.  

That's good to hear, thanks.

> I'm not aware of any code we added lately that consciously avoids
> GC-protecting data which should be protected. We may have existing
> code which does that, yes, and when we find it, we generally try to
> plug those holes, 

The comment you added mentions a case where DEFVAR_LISP_NOPRO is used in
exactly the way I described. That needs to be fixed! Just adding a
comment is accepting it, and is worse than as writing such code in the
first place. The old GC won't go away for many years.