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Re: Conservative GC isn't safe


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Conservative GC isn't safe
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 14:34:51 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)

>> For strings, the argument might not be as strong.  Maybe code like
>> (ignore (propertize "foo" 'a 'b)) could lead to us working on an
>> unreachable string, so it could get GC'd while we manipulate its
>> intervals.
> The arguments to propertize will still be reachable from the bytecode
> stack.

I was giving this code as an example of the kind of operations and the
order in which they're performed.


        Stefan




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