>From 973d10a34b23f2ce5acc00a90ec9767e6237fefa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 01:44:58 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Improve -fcheck-pointer-bounds wording. --- etc/NEWS | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index dd907ab..3ba95c1 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -38,8 +38,9 @@ interpreter or modules that it uses. If your platform supports it you can enable it when configuring, e.g., './configure CFLAGS="-g3 -O2 -mmpx -fcheck-pointer-bounds"' on Intel MPX platforms. -** Emacs now normally uses a pointer type instead of an integer type -for the fundamental word in the Emacs Lisp interpreter, to help +** Emacs now normally uses a C pointer type instead of a C integer +type to implement Lisp_Object, which is the fundamental machine word +type internal to the Emacs Lisp interpreter. This change aims to catch typos and support -fcheck-pointer-bounds. The 'configure' option --enable-check-lisp-object-type is therefore no longer as useful and so is no longer enabled by default in developer builds, -- 2.7.4