Re: MPS GC and its implications

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
> Cc: gerd.moellmann@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 20:01:56 +0200
> 
> >> So it's definitely in a global variable.
> >
> > Where do you see those "coding systems" in coding_categories[] used
> > for actually decoding or encoding anything?  I don't see that.
> >
> > AFAIK, coding_categories[] is just a db of known coding categories,
> > and they are stored as 'struct coding_system's because we then can use
> > setup_coding_system to populate these categories with relevant data.
> > But they are never used to en/decode anything, and in fact the
> > src_object and dst_object fields of those "coding systems" were never
> > even set, until you added that loop.  Or what am I missing?
> 
> I know this code hardly at all; not inside-out like you. I just looked
> at the types.

That's okay; your addition cannot do any harm.  It just added 42 more
objects to staticpro, that's all.