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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.

Building Emacs

How to the dumped Emacs is made.

Pure Storage

A kludge to make preloaded Lisp functions sharable.

Garbage Collection

Reclaiming space for Lisp objects no longer used.

Memory Usage

Info about total size of Lisp objects made so far.

Writing Emacs Primitives

Writing C code for Emacs.

Object Internals

Data formats of buffers, windows, processes.