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To: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Buffer-specific display-tables 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Mar 1997 20:18:22 EST."
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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 13:04:25 -0600
From: Chuck Thompson <cthomp@xemacs.org>

    Kyle> at the top.  It is not immediately obvious whether this is a
    Kyle> bad thing to do at the particular point in the redisplay
    Kyle> code where get_display_table() is called.  But it probably
    Kyle> is.

There is no probably about it.  The call to get_display_table is in
what is pretty much the heart of the redisplay engine.  The Second
Rule of Redisplay is definitely in effect.  Perhaps more accurately
the First Corollary of the Second Rule which is 'Thou Shalt Not GC
From Within Redisplay'.


			-Chuck

