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changeset 10476:4d87344e6dfb
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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Thu, 19 Jan 1995 07:25:03 +0000 |
| parents | 2d9590603a06 |
| children | b0ac61aef336 |
| files | lispref/internals.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/internals.texi Thu Jan 19 07:18:47 1995 +0000 +++ b/lispref/internals.texi Thu Jan 19 07:25:03 1995 +0000 @@ -503,6 +503,18 @@ you use @code{GCPRO2}, you must declare @code{gcpro1} and @code{gcpro2}. Alas, we can't explain all the tricky details here. + Remember that you must never initialise external variables (whether +static or not). If you do that, the linker will put the variable into +the initialised data area of the process, which on many architectures +becomes read-only when emacs is dumped (@pxref {Pure Storage}). + + Remember also that the keyword @code{static} is defined as nothing on +many architectures whose linkers would put every static variable in the +initialised data area, which becomes read-only after dumping. This +means that you must never use static local variables, because on those +architectures they would lose the @code{static} specifier and become +automatic. Use static external variables instead. + Defining the C function is not enough to make a Lisp primitive available; you must also create the Lisp symbol for the primitive and store a suitable subr object in its function cell. The code looks like