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27.0.50; rehash hash tables eagerly in pdumper

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Message #91 received at 36597-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 36597-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, pipcet <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#36597: 27.0.50; rehash hash tables eagerly in pdumper
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:32:16 +0300

> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 36597-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:31:24 -0700
> 
> The compilation issue was due to pdumper enabling -Wconversion, which causes 
> more trouble than it cures (but that is a different topic). I worked around the 
> glitch by installing the attached further patch, which should also help explain 
> the motivation for make_nil_vector.

Is it really worth it?  The code is now a kind of puzzle (what doe
those ALLOW/DISALLOW_IMPLICIT_CONVERSION macros do?), and Fmake_vector
is a very thin wrapper around the C function it calls.  So I think
this change is for the worse, sorry.

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