Re: Memory leak in keyboard variables?

[Andreas Schwab]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> Now, input-decode-map is defined in keyboard.c, using DEFVAR_KBOARD.  It
> is a Lisp_Misc_Kboard_Objfwd object, and if I'm not mistaken, such
> objects are not garbage-collected.

All Objfwd types are not real objects on their own, but static markers
to tell the evaluator to look elsewhere for the value.  If the
pointed-to object is still live then it will not be collected, of
course.

> When the terminal is killed, are its keyboard's Lisp_Misc_Kboard_Objfwd
> objects freed?

All such objects are allocated only once before dumping.

Andreas.

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