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Preserve extent information in the command builder code. src/ChangeLog addition: 2014-07-14 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> * event-stream.c: * event-stream.c (mark_command_builder): * event-stream.c (finalize_command_builder): Removed. * event-stream.c (allocate_command_builder): * event-stream.c (free_command_builder): Removed. Use free_normal_lisp_object() instead. * event-stream.c (echo_key_event): * event-stream.c (regenerate_echo_keys_from_this_command_keys): Detach all extents here. * event-stream.c (maybe_echo_keys): * event-stream.c (reset_key_echo): * event-stream.c (execute_help_form): * event-stream.c (Fnext_event): * event-stream.c (command_builder_find_leaf_no_jit_binding): * event-stream.c (command_builder_find_leaf): * event-stream.c (lookup_command_event): * events.h (struct command_builder): Move the command builder's echo_buf to being a Lisp string rather than a malloced Ibyte array. This allows passing through extent information, which was previously dropped. It also simplifies the allocation and release code for the command builder. Rename echo_buf_index to echo_buf_fill_pointer, better reflecting its function. Don't rely on zero-termination (something not particularly compatible with Lisp-level code) when showing a substring of echo_buf that differs from that designated by echo_buf_fill_pointer, keep a separate counter instead and use that. * minibuf.c: * minibuf.c (echo_area_append): Use the new START and END keyword arguments to #'append-message, rather than consing a new string for basically every #'next-event prompt displayed. test/ChangeLog addition: 2014-07-14 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> * automated/extent-tests.el: Check that extent information is passed through to the echo area correctly with #'next-event's PROMPT argument. lisp/ChangeLog addition: 2014-07-14 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> * simple.el (raw-append-message): Use #'write-sequence in this, take its START and END keyword arguments, so our callers don't have to cons as much. * simple.el (append-message): Pass through START and END here.
author Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
date Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:42:42 +0100
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2002-07-17  Marcus Crestani  <crestani@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
	    Markus Kaltenbach  <makalten@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
	    Mike Sperber <mike@xemacs.org>

	updated 2003-07-29

	New KKCC-GC mark algorithm:
	configure flag : --use-kkcc

	For better understanding, first a few words about the mark algorithm 
	up to now:
	Every Lisp_Object has its own mark method, which calls mark_object
	with the stuff to be marked.
	Also, many Lisp_Objects have pdump descriptions memory_descriptions, 
	which are used by the portable dumper. The dumper gets all the 
	information it needs about the Lisp_Object from the descriptions.

	Also the garbage collector can use the information in the pdump
	descriptions, so we can get rid of the mark methods.
	That is what we have been doing.

	
	DUMPABLE FLAG
	-------------
	First we added a dumpable flag to lrecord_implementation. It shows,
	if the object is dumpable and should be processed by the dumper.
	The dumpable flag is the third argument of a lrecord_implementation
	definition (DEFINE_LRECORD_IMPLEMENTATION).
	If it is set to 1, the dumper processes the descriptions and dumps
	the Object, if it is set to 0, the dumper does not care about it.
		

	KKCC MARKING
	------------
	All Lisp_Objects have memory_descriptions now, so we could get
	rid of the mark_object calls.
	The KKCC algorithm manages its own stack. Instead of calling 
	mark_object, all the alive Lisp_Objects are pushed on the 
	kkcc_gc_stack. Then these elements on the stack  are processed 
	according to their descriptions.


	TODO
	----
	- For weakness use weak datatypes instead of XD_FLAG_NO_KKCC.
	  XD_FLAG_NO_KKCC occurs in:
		* elhash.c: htentry
		* extents.c: lispobject_gap_array, extent_list, extent_info
		* marker.c: marker     
	  Not everything has to be rewritten. See Ben's comment in lrecord.h.
	- Clean up special case marking (weak_hash_tables, weak_lists,
	  ephemerons).
	- Stack optimization (have one stack during runtime instead of 
	  malloc/free it for every garbage collect)

	There are a few Lisp_Objects, where there occurred differences and
	inexactness between the mark-method and the pdump description.  All
	these Lisp_Objects get dumped (except image instances), so their
	descriptions have been written, before we started our work:
	* alloc.c: string
	description: size_, data_, and plist is described
	mark: only plist is marked, but flush_cached_extent_info is called.
	      flush_cached_extent_info ->
		free_soe ->
		  free_extent_list ->
		    free_gap_array ->
		      gap_array_delete_all_markers ->
			Add gap_array to the gap_array_marker_freelist

	* glyphs.c: image_instance
	description: device is not set to nil
	mark: mark method sets device to nil if dead
	See comment above the description.