Re: Modifying Emacs to use the Mac OS X Keychain Services

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:40:16 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> From: Ben Key <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:18:22 -0500
>> 
>> I need some advice.  Now that I am providing a `ns-keychain-open'
>> function and a `ns-keychain-create' function  I need to know how to
>> store a pointer to a SecKeychainRef object in a Lisp_Object variable.
>> Can I simply use a type cast?

EZ> It's tempting, but I don't think it's TRT.  I think we generally use
EZ> pseudovectors for this.  The advantage is that you can then use
EZ> standard macros to access it, and developers can use commands in
EZ> .gdbinit to debug the code that involves these objects.

Another approach is to do what frames do; see `frame-parameters' for
instance.

Ted