Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r117987: * internals.texi (Stack-allocated Objects): Describe this feature.

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:15:34 -0700
>> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Regardless of whether we use declaration-style macros, there is one 
>> thing I'd like to change: the macro names.
>
> Yes, the names are not helpful.
>
>> These macros are not about *scope*; they are about *lifetime*.  How
>> about the prefix "auto_" (from the C keyword 'auto') rather than
>> "scope_"?  Or maybe "block_" because it's block lifetime?  ("auto_"
>> is shorter....)
>
> Or maybe "alloca_*", as in alloca_string, alloca_list1, etc.

alloca is "to end of function".  Language-supported dynamic allocations
are "to end of block".  That's not quite the same.

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David Kastrup