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bug#25816: Emacs xwidget GC issue with callback


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#25816: Emacs xwidget GC issue with callback
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 09:10:32 -0800
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When configuring with --with-xwidgets --enable-check-lisp-object-type the Emacs build would fail due to a type confusion in src/xwidget.c, which I attempted to fix by installing the attached patch. However, as noted in the patch, this code appears to have a garbage-collection bug, as it converts a Lisp_Object to a C pointer and stores that pointer (for what appears to be an indefinite period of time) into a C object that the garbage collector does not know about. If garbage-collection reclaims the object before the callback is used, disaster can occur. As I don't know the lifetime of the C object I'm reluctant to try to fix this myself, so I'm filing this bug report in the hope that an xwidget expert can fix it.

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