Re: Copying one Lisp_Object to another in C code?

[Chong Yidong]

James Cloos <address@hidden> writes:

> Given:
>
>     static void (foo)
>         Lisp_Object foo;
>     {
>         Lisp_Object bar;
>     /* etc */
>
> is it OK to do:
>
>         bar = foo;

Yes.

> I presume GCPRO1 (foo) is in order either way?

Only if the code ends up calling eval, and for the benefit of the
platforms that don't use stack marking.