GNU bug report logs - #42013
26.3; hash tables are not garbage collected

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Hendrik Tews <hendrik.tews <at> kernkonzept.com>

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 23:47:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Hendrik Tews <hendrik.tews <at> kernkonzept.com>
Cc: 42013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42013: 26.3; hash tables are not garbage collected
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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