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.

• Building Emacs
• Garbage Collection
• Stack-allocated Objects
• Memory Usage
• C Dialect
• Writing Emacs Primitives
• Writing Dynamically-Loaded Modules
• Object Internals
• C Integer Types