Re: Watchpoints for emacs lisp.

[alin.s]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
>>>> In which cases the access to this shared resource is concurrent?
>>> If you build without -DSYNC_INPUT, Emacs may call malloc from
>>> asynchronous signal handlers (yes, it's usually considered as a no-no in
>>> Unix programming, which is why we have switched to SYNC_INPUT).
>> In which situation it is useful to create new symbols in signal handlers
>> ?
> 
> Without -DSYNC_INPUT we run a whole lot of code within the signal
> handlers, so whether that code can create symbols or not, I don't know,
> but figuring it out is difficult.  Hence -DSYNC_INPUT.
> 
> 
> 

Thanks.

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