Re: I don't understand this comment on message2

[Kim F. Storm]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

>        The buffer M must continue to exist until after the echo area gets
>        cleared or some other message gets displayed there.  This means do
>        not pass text that is stored in a Lisp string; do not pass text in
>        a buffer that was alloca'd.  */
>
> I think that comment is probably obsolete.  Nowadays the echo area
> text is stored in real buffers.  Before Emacs 20, I think it was
> stored in null-terminated C strings.
>
> You could double-check this by looking at the code from Emacs 19.
> If this comment was needed for that reason, it can be deleted now.

That was the reason, yes.  I have rewritten the comment.

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