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Re: Conservative GC isn't safe


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Conservative GC isn't safe
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 20:26:56 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)

On Nov 28 2016, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

> For strings, the argument might not be as strong.  Maybe code like
> (ignore (propertize "foo" 'a 'b)) could lead to us working on an
> unreachable string, so it could get GC'd while we manipulate its
> intervals.

The arguments to propertize will still be reachable from the bytecode
stack.

Andreas.

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