Re: Emacs and Gnome Canvas

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Emacs overrides the default `malloc' and `sbrk' functions, at least on
> some platforms, and replaces them with its own implementations.  Those
> implementations relocate large objects on the heap behind the scenes,
> whenever Emacs sees fit.  I'm not sure this is "usable from C++" out
> of the box.  C++ objects that hold pointers to arrays might suddenly
> find those pointers invalidated by the above-mentioned relocation.

The relocating allocator can of course only relocate objects it knows
about, so I don't know what should be the issue with C++?  The objects
allocated via new are just part of the normal malloc space that never
gets touched by ralloc.

Andreas.

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