Mercurial > emacs
changeset 50690:53295bd2ddbe
(Writing Emacs Primitives): Clarify previous change.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:01:11 +0000 |
| parents | d7f480650128 |
| children | e2879cfe85cf |
| files | lispref/internals.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/internals.texi Thu Apr 24 02:00:09 2003 +0000 +++ b/lispref/internals.texi Thu Apr 24 02:01:11 2003 +0000 @@ -593,8 +593,9 @@ accept two arguments at the C level: the number of Lisp arguments, and a @code{Lisp_Object *} pointer to a C vector containing those Lisp arguments. This C vector may be part of a Lisp vector, but it need -not be. The responsibility for protecting the Lisp arguments from GC -rests with the caller in this case. +not be. The responsibility for using GCPRO to protecting the Lisp +arguments from GC if necessary rests with the caller in this case, +since the caller allocated or found the storage for them. You must not use C initializers for static or global variables unless the variables are never written once Emacs is dumped. These variables