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From: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
To: 20907@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20907: [PATCH] Manual bug for scm_gc_protect_object
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 23:00:32 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1019343405.630040.1435359632144.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)

Manual claims C globals weren't scanned by GC in 1.8.  The opposite
is true.

* doc/ref/api-memory.texi [scm_gc_protect_object]: modified
---
doc/ref/api-memory.texi | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/ref/api-memory.texi b/doc/ref/api-memory.texi
index 0e37d16..3496cc5 100644
--- a/doc/ref/api-memory.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/api-memory.texi
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ as it was protected. It is an error to unprotect an object more times
than it has been protected. Returns the SCM object it was passed.

Note that storing @var{obj} in a C global variable has the same
-effect@footnote{In Guile up to version 1.8, C global variables were not
+effect@footnote{In Guile up to version 1.8, C global variables were
scanned by the garbage collector; hence, @code{scm_gc_protect_object}
was the only way in C to prevent a Scheme object from being freed.}.
@end deftypefn
--
2.1.0





             reply	other threads:[~2015-06-26 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-26 23:00 Mike Gran [this message]
2015-09-02  1:59 ` bug#20907: [PATCH] Manual bug for scm_gc_protect_object Mark H Weaver
2015-09-02 12:08   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-02 15:36     ` Mike Gran
2015-09-02 16:16       ` Mark H Weaver
2015-09-02 16:52         ` Mark H Weaver
2015-09-02 17:12         ` Mike Gran
2015-09-02 18:05           ` Mark H Weaver
2015-09-02 18:34             ` Mike Gran
2016-06-24  6:58               ` Andy Wingo

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