Seriously Confusing

22/11/2015
/* Display an echo area message in window W.  Value is true if W's
   height is changed.  If display_last_displayed_message_p,
   display the message that was last displayed, otherwise
   display the current message.  */

static bool
display_echo_area (struct window *w)
{
  bool no_message_p, window_height_changed_p;

  /* Temporarily disable garbage collections while displaying the echo
     area.  This is done because a GC can print a message itself.
     That message would modify the echo area buffer's contents while a
     redisplay of the buffer is going on, and seriously confuse
     redisplay.  */
  ptrdiff_t count = inhibit_garbage_collection ();

  /* If there is no message, we must call display_echo_area_1
     nevertheless because it resizes the window.  But we will have to
     reset the echo_area_buffer in question to nil at the end because
     with_echo_area_buffer will sets it to an empty buffer.  */
  bool i = display_last_displayed_message_p;
  no_message_p = NILP (echo_area_buffer[i]);

  window_height_changed_p
    = with_echo_area_buffer (w, display_last_displayed_message_p,
                             display_echo_area_1,
                             (intptr_t) w, Qnil);

  if (no_message_p)
    echo_area_buffer[i] = Qnil;

  unbind_to (count, Qnil);
  return window_height_changed_p;
}

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