Re: The taming of the before-gc-hook (was Re: Upcoming 1.3.2 release)

[Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu>]

Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:

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> Also, I don't agree that such hooks are necessary.  Emacs has gotten
> by for years with no such hooks.  Common Lisp doesn't provide them, as
> far as I can see.

Actually, GNU XEmacs does have the hooks: pre-gc-hook, and
post-gc-hook.  The documentation just warns the user to be *very*
careful, etc., etc.

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Greg