Re: EMACS_INT cleanup

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

>> I mean, it sounds nonsensical, but 1) it makes it compile without any
>> other warnings, and 2) if you've said (setq a (buffer-string)) on a
>> big buffer and then happen to (intern a), you don't want a segfault,
>> do you?
>
> It might distract you enough as to not make your getaway before the
> memory bloat police arrives and catches you red-black-handed.

Yeah, and then if you unintern nil, and then rm -rf /, then you're
really in trouble.

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  address@hidden * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen