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Re: All platforms fail with Unicode in menus.


From: Stefan
Subject: Re: All platforms fail with Unicode in menus.
Date: 28 Aug 2004 17:38:23 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

>> +       inhibit_garbage_collection ();
>> Can someone that knows ENCODE_UTF_8 and garbage collection well
>> comment on this patch?
> I don't know either well, but of course that is not the correct way to
> fix it.  The correct way would be to add appropriate GCPRO and UNGCPRO
> calls for temporary data structures that should not yet be collected.

On what system is that, and how is it compiled.
The thing is that GCPROs are almost never used nowadays: on most systems we
just conservatively scan the stack.  So unless his config happens to not do
the conservative stack scan (and thus use the GCPROs instead), adding GCPROs
won't do a thing.


        Stefan




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