Re: When should ralloc.c be used?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 10:29:35 +0200
> 
> On Okt 24 2016, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I don't remember well enough the internals of ralloc.c: perhaps it
> > doesn't relocate Lisp string data unless the string is long enough? or
> > at all?  So the problems with Lisp string might not be as grave as I
> > fear, but this should certainly be looked into before we dismiss all
> > those cases.
> 
> String data can be relocated even without ralloc, see
> compact_small_strings.

Yes, but that's called only by GC, so not a problem in most (if not
all) the places I've seen that, and is not related to ralloc anyway.

Looking at ralloc.c and its callers, I think the only blocks of memory
it relocates on its own are those allocated with r_alloc or r_realloc,
which is only used for buffer text and (under REGEX_MALLOC) for
regex.c failure stack.  Which means compact_small_strings is the
_only_ place where string data is relocated, so just calls to malloc
cannot.

IOW, I confused GC and compact_small_strings with ralloc, when I
talked about string data, and our only problem is with pointers to
buffer text.

Am I missing something?

Thanks.