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make lrecord UID's have a separate UID space for each object, resurrect debug SOE code in extents.c
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src/ChangeLog addition:
2010-03-15 Ben Wing <ben@xemacs.org>
* alloc.c:
* alloc.c (c_readonly):
* alloc.c (deadbeef_memory):
* alloc.c (make_compiled_function):
* alloc.c (make_button_data):
* alloc.c (make_motion_data):
* alloc.c (make_process_data):
* alloc.c (make_timeout_data):
* alloc.c (make_magic_data):
* alloc.c (make_magic_eval_data):
* alloc.c (make_eval_data):
* alloc.c (make_misc_user_data):
* alloc.c (noseeum_make_marker):
* alloc.c (ADDITIONAL_FREE_string):
* alloc.c (common_init_alloc_early):
* alloc.c (init_alloc_once_early):
* bytecode.c (print_compiled_function):
* bytecode.c (mark_compiled_function):
* casetab.c:
* casetab.c (print_case_table):
* console.c:
* console.c (print_console):
* database.c (print_database):
* database.c (finalize_database):
* device-msw.c (sync_printer_with_devmode):
* device-msw.c (print_devmode):
* device-msw.c (finalize_devmode):
* device.c:
* device.c (print_device):
* elhash.c:
* elhash.c (print_hash_table):
* eval.c (print_multiple_value):
* eval.c (mark_multiple_value):
* events.c (deinitialize_event):
* events.c (print_event):
* events.c (event_equal):
* extents.c:
* extents.c (soe_dump):
* extents.c (soe_insert):
* extents.c (soe_delete):
* extents.c (soe_move):
* extents.c (extent_fragment_update):
* extents.c (print_extent_1):
* extents.c (print_extent):
* extents.c (vars_of_extents):
* frame.c:
* frame.c (print_frame):
* free-hook.c:
* free-hook.c (check_free):
* glyphs.c:
* glyphs.c (print_image_instance):
* glyphs.c (print_glyph):
* gui.c:
* gui.c (copy_gui_item):
* hash.c:
* hash.c (NULL_ENTRY):
* hash.c (KEYS_DIFFER_P):
* keymap.c (print_keymap):
* keymap.c (MARKED_SLOT):
* lisp.h:
* lrecord.h:
* lrecord.h (LISP_OBJECT_UID):
* lrecord.h (set_lheader_implementation):
* lrecord.h (struct old_lcrecord_header):
* lstream.c (print_lstream):
* lstream.c (finalize_lstream):
* marker.c (print_marker):
* marker.c (marker_equal):
* mc-alloc.c (visit_all_used_page_headers):
* mule-charset.c:
* mule-charset.c (print_charset):
* objects.c (print_color_instance):
* objects.c (print_font_instance):
* objects.c (finalize_font_instance):
* opaque.c (print_opaque):
* opaque.c (print_opaque_ptr):
* opaque.c (equal_opaque_ptr):
* print.c (internal_object_printer):
* print.c (enum printing_badness):
* rangetab.c (print_range_table):
* rangetab.c (range_table_equal):
* specifier.c (print_specifier):
* specifier.c (finalize_specifier):
* symbols.c:
* symbols.c (print_symbol_value_magic):
* tooltalk.c:
* tooltalk.c (print_tooltalk_message):
* tooltalk.c (print_tooltalk_pattern):
* window.c (print_window):
* window.c (debug_print_window):
(1) Make lrecord UID's have a separate UID space for each object.
Otherwise, with 20-bit UID's, we rapidly wrap around, especially
when common objects like conses and strings increment the UID value
for every object created. (Originally I tried making two UID spaces,
one for objects that always print readably and hence don't display
the UID, and one for other objects. But certain objects like markers
for which a UID is displayed are still generated rapidly enough that
UID overflow is a serious issue.) This also has the advantage of
making UID values smaller, hence easier to remember -- their main
purpose is to make it easier to keep track of different objects of
the same type when debugging code. Make sure we dump lrecord UID's
so that we don't have problems with pdumped and non-dumped objects
having the same UID.
(2) Display UID's consistently whenever an object (a) doesn't
consistently print readably (objects like cons and string, which
always print readably, can't display a UID), and (b) doesn't
otherwise have a unique property that makes objects of a
particular type distinguishable. (E.g. buffers didn't and still
don't print an ID, but the buffer name uniquely identifies the
buffer.) Some types, such as event, extent, compiled-function,
didn't always (or didn't ever) display an ID; others (such as
marker, extent, lstream, opaque, opaque-ptr, any object using
internal_object_printer()) used to display the actual machine
pointer instead.
(3) Rename NORMAL_LISP_OBJECT_UID to LISP_OBJECT_UID; make it work
over all Lisp objects and take a Lisp object, not a struct pointer.
(4) Some misc cleanups in alloc.c, elhash.c.
(5) Change code in events.c that "deinitializes" an event so that
it doesn't increment the event UID counter in the process. Also
use deadbeef_memory() to overwrite memory instead of doing the same
with custom code. In the process, make deadbeef_memory() in
alloc.c always available, and delete extraneous copy in mc-alloc.c.
Also capitalize all uses of 0xDEADBEEF. Similarly in elhash.c
call deadbeef_memory().
(6) Resurrect "debug SOE" code in extents.c. Make it conditional
on DEBUG_XEMACS and on a `debug-soe' variable, rather than on
SOE_DEBUG. Make it output to stderr, not stdout.
(7) Delete some custom print methods that were identical to
external_object_printer().
| author | Ben Wing <ben@xemacs.org> |
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| date | Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:35:38 -0500 |
| parents | 2cf5d151eeb9 |
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The files in this directory contain source code for the core XEmacs facilities written in Emacs Lisp. *.el files are Elisp source, and *.elc files are byte-compiled versions of the corresponding *.el files. Byte-compiled files are architecture-independent. Functions used only by files in this directory are considered "internal" and are subject to change at any time. All commands, and most functions with docstrings, are part of the exported API. In particular, it is considered good style to use the Common Lisp facilities provided in cl*.el. (Yes, that's ambiguous. Sorry, we don't have a full specification of the API, as the Lispref is chronically incomplete. Anything described in the Lispref is part of the API, of course.) Libraries which implement applications and enhancements are placed in the "packages", which are distributed separately from the core sources. #### Someone please update this. #### Partially updated 2001-08-25 by sjt. Needs more work. Mike? 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Read the instructions in this file for a description of how to do this. site-load.el #### description is obsolete This is like site-init.el, but if you want the docstrings of your preloaded libraries to be kept in the DOC file instead of in the executable, you should load them from this file instead. To do this, you must also cause them to be scanned when the DOC file is generated by editing ../src/Makefile.in.in and rerunning configure. #### new semantics This file will preload additional libraries listed in ../site-packages and dump them into XEmacs. ../site-packages List of additional libraries read by site-load.el. site-start.el This is loaded each time XEmacs starts up, before the user's .emacs file. (Sysadmin must create.) Can be inhibited for a given invocation with `--no-site-file'. default.el This is loaded each time XEmacs starts up, after the user's .emacs file, unless .emacs sets the variable inhibit-default-init to t. (Sysadmin must create.) Can be inhibited for a given invocation with `-q'. version.el This contains the version information for XEmacs. ======================================================================== Original text follows: The files in this directory contain source code for the XEmacs facilities written in Emacs Lisp. *.el files are Elisp source, and *.elc files are byte-compiled versions of the corresponding *.el files. Byte-compiled files are architecture-independent. #### Someone please update this. bogus> When XEmacs starts up, it adds all subdirectories of the bogus> site-lisp directory. The site-lisp directory normally exists bogus> only in installation trees. For more information about the bogus> site-lisp directory see the NEWS file. bogus> After XEmacs adds all subdirectories of the site-lisp bogus> directory, it adds all subdirectories of this directory to the bogus> load-path (the list of directories to be searched when loading bogus> files.) To speed up this process, this directory has been bogus> rearranged to have very few files at the top-level, so that bogus> emacs doesn't have to stat() several hundred files to find the bogus> dozen or so which are actually subdirectories. bogus> Directories whose names begin with "-" or "." are not added to bogus> the default load-path. The only files which remain at top-level are those which you might reasonably want to alter when installing or customizing XEmacs at your site. The files which may appear at top level are: paths.el You may need to change the default pathnames here, but probably not. This is loaded before XEmacs is dumped. site-init.el To pre-load additional libraries into XEmacs and dump them in the executable, load them from this file. Read the instructions in this file for a description of how to do this. site-load.el This is like site-init.el, but if you want the docstrings of your preloaded libraries to be kept in the DOC file instead of in the executable, you should load them from this file instead. To do this, you must also cause them to be scanned when the DOC file is generated by editing ../src/Makefile.in.in and rerunning configure. site-start.el This is loaded each time XEmacs starts up, before the user's .emacs file. default.el This is loaded each time XEmacs starts up, after the user's .emacs file, unless .emacs sets the variable inhibit-default-init to t. version.el This contains the version information for XEmacs.