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| author | Paul Eggert | 2018-01-01 01:44:58 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert | 2018-01-01 01:45:29 -0800 |
| commit | 973d10a34b23f2ce5acc00a90ec9767e6237fefa (patch) | |
| tree | b6b71b4f8ade693fbdab0f22abdf2d995fb9dbaf | |
| parent | 751989772768fe787ec0bb02929c3d2a49805388 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-973d10a34b23f2ce5acc00a90ec9767e6237fefa.tar.gz emacs-973d10a34b23f2ce5acc00a90ec9767e6237fefa.zip | |
* etc/NEWS: Improve -fcheck-pointer-bounds wording.
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
| @@ -38,8 +38,9 @@ interpreter or modules that it uses. If your platform supports it you | |||
| 38 | can enable it when configuring, e.g., './configure CFLAGS="-g3 -O2 | 38 | can enable it when configuring, e.g., './configure CFLAGS="-g3 -O2 |
| 39 | -mmpx -fcheck-pointer-bounds"' on Intel MPX platforms. | 39 | -mmpx -fcheck-pointer-bounds"' on Intel MPX platforms. |
| 40 | 40 | ||
| 41 | ** Emacs now normally uses a pointer type instead of an integer type | 41 | ** Emacs now normally uses a C pointer type instead of a C integer |
| 42 | for the fundamental word in the Emacs Lisp interpreter, to help | 42 | type to implement Lisp_Object, which is the fundamental machine word |
| 43 | type internal to the Emacs Lisp interpreter. This change aims to | ||
| 43 | catch typos and support -fcheck-pointer-bounds. The 'configure' | 44 | catch typos and support -fcheck-pointer-bounds. The 'configure' |
| 44 | option --enable-check-lisp-object-type is therefore no longer as | 45 | option --enable-check-lisp-object-type is therefore no longer as |
| 45 | useful and so is no longer enabled by default in developer builds, | 46 | useful and so is no longer enabled by default in developer builds, |