Re: All platforms fail with Unicode in menus.

[Jan D.]

> > > +       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.

I don't know what system David originally used, but I used GNU/Linux on 
x86,
with gcc 3.4.1.
If the GCPROs don't help, can for example static Lisp_Object:s be the 
source
of this problem?  Are there any other cases where Lisp_Object:s should
be protected?

        Jan D.