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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs, memory usage, releasing
Message-ID: <1507@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Jan 90 16:54:44 GMT
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In article <S_W2=5ggpc2@ficc.uu.net> peter@sugar.lonestar.org (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Not to mention that making assumptions about pointer formats is dangerous in
>and of itself. 

Note that Gnu Emacs doesn't do this.  It uses macros to extract pointers from
tagged words.  On reasonable machines, these macros are trivial.  On
unreasonable machines, they are more complex.

-- Richard
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