Re: Reliable after-change-functions (via: Using incremental parsing in Emacs)

[Stephen Leake]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
>> 
>> >> You mention "consing of Lisp objects" above, which says to me that the
>> >> text is stored in a more complex structure.
>> >
>> > I meant the consing that is necessary to make a buffer-substring that
>> > will be passed to the parser.
>> 
>> Since are are calling the parser from C (if it is linked into Emacs, or
>> in a module), I still don't understand. Does C code have to cons to
>> create a string?
>
> If course.  How else do you get a UTF-8 encoded string to pass to the
> parser as a copy of buffer text?

malloc and memcpy. I guess that's what you mean by "cons"; I was
assuming you meant the actual elisp function.

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-- Stephe