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[Emacs-diffs] master 973d10a: * etc/NEWS: Improve -fcheck-pointer-bounds
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Paul Eggert |
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[Emacs-diffs] master 973d10a: * etc/NEWS: Improve -fcheck-pointer-bounds wording. |
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Mon, 1 Jan 2018 04:45:35 -0500 (EST) |
branch: master
commit 973d10a34b23f2ce5acc00a90ec9767e6237fefa
Author: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
Commit: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
* 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,
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