Re: Patch for fields of `struct buffer'

[Stefan Monnier]

> Yeah, you could.  On a thread-switch, you could unwind all the old
> thread's bindings, then restore the new thread's bindings.

> This would let all the existing C code work without indirections or
> macro trickery; the downsides are that you have to have user-space
> control over thread switching, and thread switching becomes expensive.

I also expect some really nasty cases showing up when you try to rewind
a thread's bindings.  E.g. if a let-binding that was originally applied
to a global variable has to be rewound (i.e. re-applied) to a variable
that has become buffer-local in the mean time.

I guess this brings up back into the core of the issue: the semantics of
thread-local dynamic scoping and its interaction with
buffer-local bindings.


        Stefan