Re: struct environment

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 11:33:08AM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
> On 06 Sep 2002 11:56:14 -0700, David Carlton
> <carlton@math.Stanford.EDU> said:
> 
> > At some point, I'll give it a look: ALL_BLOCK_SYMBOLS is only used
> > in 29 places, so it should be tractable to survey them by hand.
> 
> And of course it turns out that, in at least one place,
> ALL_BLOCK_SYMBOLS calls a function that, in turn, calls
> ALL_BLOCK_SYMBOLS over the exact same block.  Oops.
> 
> But I think I was making too much of the memory-management
> difficulties: I'll do iterators correctly (so you can have as many of
> them active as you want), and just write an ALL_ENV_SYMBOLS macro that
> allocates them on the stack using alloca().

Or you could just require an iterator to be declared in the function
which uses ALL_BLOCK_SYMBOLS.... why bring alloca into it?  The pointer
you allocate into would need to be a local variable so the iterator
might as well just be a local variable.  Sure, it makes them a tiny bit
less opaque.  But make them opaque -in practice-.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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