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Re: MPS signals and Emacs


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: MPS signals and Emacs
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:40:38 -0700
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

On 2024-04-22 00:19, Gerd Möllmann wrote:
I assume that MPS is not being used to allocate any of Emacs's own
objects, as copying collectors are incompatible with Emacs's habit of
squirreling away pointers inside integers.
It's excactly that, a (mostly) copying collector for Emacs :-).

Since Emacs uses a conservative collector, how can MPS move Emacs objects? MPS can't know which words are pointers and which are not, so it can't update pointers when Emacs objects move.



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