Re: Failing to GC killed buffers considered harmful

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Pip Cet <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 16:46:03 +0000
> Cc: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> > We could, of course, remove the assertion, but then we are left with a
> > dead buffer that will never be GC'ed, AFAIU, because objects that come
> > from the portable dump are considered constantly marked.
> 
> The same is true of all other objects, though, right?

You mean, that they are considered marked?  Yes.

> It seems like it's simply a bad assert to me.

Which one?

> The problem appears to be that "all_buffers" points to a killed
> buffer, and is remembered by pdumper.

Yes, because pdumper dumps all the Lisp objects present at that point,
after performing GC.  What else can it do?