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Re: mark_object crash in 22.1 and latest CVS (as of tonight)


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: mark_object crash in 22.1 and latest CVS (as of tonight)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:52:32 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206)

> The `evaporate' option is inherently dangerous since it reclaims the
> marker object forcefully without checking that nobody else is holding on
> to it, even tho it comes from a plain normal argument and the caller may
> very well have kept another ref to it somewhere.

Indeed.  I faintly recall a discussion about restricting the access to
match data.  Maybe that option was an ill-fated attempt based on the
assumption that no one was allowed to copy a reference to match data or
any of its components.

> I suggest we kill it,

Don't forget to kill it in emacs_base too.





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