Re: Dynamic loading progress

[Tom Tromey]

Daniel> A runtime describes Emacs as a whole. It lives forever and has
Daniel> no thread affinity.

Thanks.

Daniel> We have a perfectly good sentinel: NULL. NULL will never be a valid
Daniel> local or global reference, so it's safe to use it to indicate that
Daniel> something went wrong.

Ok, I see, it really is JNI.  I was confused because the module API
doesn't implement this.

This design seems a bit odd for Emacs in that "immediate" things like
ints will still have to be wrapped in references.

Tom