Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r109327: Generalize INTERNAL_FIELD between buffers, keyboards and frames.

[Dmitry Antipov]

On 08/08/2012 07:39 AM, Chong Yidong wrote:

> Another problem, which I haven't seen mentioned in this thread, is that
> when you see C code which does FVAR (x, y) the natural assumption is
> that x and y are C variables.  So these macros hurt code readability.
>
> The introduction of BVAR also violated this principle, and I'm not eager
> to see the problem compounded.

It looks like we should think about how to redesign BVARs and KVARs so
that it should be suitable both for GC and concurrency development.

> I think FSET/WSET/PSET/PGET/etc should be removed from the trunk, at
> least for now.  I recommend moving the generational GC work to a branch.

Look at the size of changes I did just for a few days. This is just a
preliminary changes needed to implement write barriers on top of them.
Each pointer store is a subject to handle; most probably each source
file will be affected. I suppose that new GC tree will look so different
so the final merge will be a tremendous task on a few weeks. So I'm
thinking about 2-stage approach: preliminary work is in trunk (where
it might be used for concurrency branch and other development), and
new GC (barriers and core GC bits) is in branch.

Dmitry