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elisp: GNU Emacs Internals

 
 Appendix E GNU Emacs Internals
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 This chapter describes how the runnable Emacs executable is dumped with
 the preloaded Lisp libraries in it, how storage is allocated, and some
 internal aspects of GNU Emacs that may be of interest to C programmers.
 

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· Building Emacs      How the dumped Emacs is made.
· Pure Storage        Kludge to make preloaded Lisp functions shareable.
· Garbage Collection  Reclaiming space for Lisp objects no longer used.
· Stack-allocated Objects    Temporary conses and strings on C stack.
· Memory Usage        Info about total size of Lisp objects made so far.
· C Dialect           What C variant Emacs is written in.
· Writing Emacs Primitives   Writing C code for Emacs.
· Object Internals    Data formats of buffers, windows, processes.
· C Integer Types     How C integer types are used inside Emacs.
 

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