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Re: Doc strings starting with a line break
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Doc strings starting with a line break |
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Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:59:18 +0200 |
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On Sep 18 2016, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
> There's a special hack in the Lisp reader which reads such strings as
> the constant 0 (under some circumstances) so that we don't allocate
> memory for those strings which will soon after be replaced by
> a reference to some part of the DOC file (via Snarf-documentation).
That feature is only used in elc files, though (and some el files that
are explicitly loaded noncompiled like loaddefs.el).
Andreas.
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