Subject: bug#42013: 26.3; hash tables are not garbage collected

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:14:20 +0200

On Jun 23 2020, Hendrik Tews wrote:

> With emacs -Q it returns ((vec2 5) (sym2 1) (vec1 5) (sym1 1)),
> while I was expecting ((vec2 0) (sym2 0) ...).

The garbage collector is conservative, so objects may not be collected
immediately, even if they appear unreferenced.

Andreas.

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