Re: [Emacs-diffs] master b7f83ad: Prefer memset to repeatedly assigning Qnil

[Stefan Monnier]

>> We don't need to keep the code for the "Qnil!=0" case
> In that case I jumped the gun by adding that code.  I just now removed it.
>> But if we only consciously rely on Qnil==0 in a few special places
> To help identify these I put 'verify (NIL_IS_ZERO)' in each such place
> I know about (there are a half dozen).

Can you try and bring most of those cases together in a .h file (presumably
lisp.h)?  I suggest to rename memsetnil to memset_zero_and_nil and to
use it at those places where we set to nil as well as those places where
we set a mix of Lisp_Objects and other fields to zeros and nils.


        Stefan