Subject: bug#50507: New function in Emacs GnuTLS implementation

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:37:20 +0300

> From: Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 09:01:06 -0400
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 6:47 AM Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > > I went with intern.
> >
> > Why not use DEFSYM and then compare against the static symbols?  That
> > is more efficient, since the intern call is avoided at run time.
> 
> I did not understand the differences between DEFSYM() and
> intern(). Can DEFSYM() be used outside of syms_of_gnutls()?

Why do you need to use DEFSYM outside of syms_of_gnutls?