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Re: Changes to HACKING
From: |
Mikael Djurfeldt |
Subject: |
Re: Changes to HACKING |
Date: |
28 Dec 2000 16:23:18 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 |
Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:
> The updated text in HACKING still talks of warnings about variables being
> clobbered by longjmp/vfork in eval.c. However, these warnings are no
> longer issued when compiling eval.c, but rather when compiling
> continuations.c.
>
> Moreover, this warning can be fixed by simply declaring the variable cont
> in scm_make_continuation as volatile. As this code is no longer part of
> the evaluator, it shouldn't be a big performance hit any more. Therefore,
> we could get rid of that section in HACKING completely.
Good ideas!
/mdj