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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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