Re: Compiling Elisp to a native code with a GCC plugin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:18:30 +0200
> 
> So I'm thinking the memcmp() is sufficient to give the desired result.
> Isn't it?

No, because of the gap issue.  That's why Fbuffer_substring moves the
gap out of its way:

  if (start < GPT && GPT < end)
    move_gap (start);

This ensures that the region of buffer text between START and END is
contiguous, without the gap.  Which is why you can really use memcpy
et al.