GNU bug report logs - #12450
Remove configure's --without-sync-input option.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 07:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #53 received at 12450 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, rms <at> gnu.org, 12450 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Remove configure's --without-sync-input option.
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:21:35 +0300

> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:17:33 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: rms <at> gnu.org, 12450 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lekktu <at> gmail.com
> 
> On 09/16/2012 01:05 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> No, it is not used indirectly.  emacs_blocked_malloc is the only
> >> function that uses malloc_hysteresis to set __malloc_extra_blocks.
> >> And emacs_blocked_malloc is invoked only in the non-SYNC_INPUT code.
> > 
> > Which means that gmalloc.c, and any memory allocation based on that,
> > will work differently with that function removed
> 
> No, because the function is never invoked, if we assume SYNC_INPUT.

Yes, it _is_ invoked on platforms that don't use SYNC_INPUT now.
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