Re: More over-engineering

[David Kastrup]

Aurélien Aptel <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Stefan Monnier
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Are we really allocating a structure for every Lisp_Object value we pass
>> through the modules API?  Why do that?
>
> Look at the old thread for Philip's arguments. As far as I'm
> concerned, we need an indirect pointer to support wide-int
> Lisp_Objects on 32bit platforms. Global reference can still be made
> with the current code. We have a reference counting hash-table to keep
> track of them. Non-global refs are marked explicitely in case the GC
> misses them.

If the same modules cannot be used at the same time for wide-int and
normal int Emacs compilations (can they?), then it would seem that
module code could become significantly simpler when declaring wide-int
and module support mutually exclusive.

-- 
David Kastrup