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E. GNU Emacs Internals

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.

E.1 Building Emacs    How to the dumped Emacs is made.

E.2 Pure Storage    A kludge to make preloaded Lisp functions sharable.

E.3 Garbage Collection    Reclaiming space for Lisp objects no longer used.

E.4 Memory Usage    Info about total size of Lisp objects made so far.

E.5 Writing Emacs Primitives    Writing C code for Emacs.

E.6 Object Internals    Data formats of buffers, windows, processes.

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E.1 Building Emacs		How to the dumped Emacs is made.
E.2 Pure Storage		A kludge to make preloaded Lisp functions sharable.
E.3 Garbage Collection		Reclaiming space for Lisp objects no longer used.
E.4 Memory Usage		Info about total size of Lisp objects made so far.
E.5 Writing Emacs Primitives		Writing C code for Emacs.
E.6 Object Internals		Data formats of buffers, windows, processes.