GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual

Appendix B: 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 How to preload Lisp libraries into Emacs.
• Pure Storage A kludge to make preloaded Lisp functions sharable.
• Garbage Collection Reclaiming space for Lisp objects no longer used.
• Writing Emacs Primitives Writing C code for Emacs.
• Object Internals Data formats of buffers, windows, processes.