From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Gran Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: bug#20907: [PATCH] Manual bug for scm_gc_protect_object Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 18:34:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1832189928.562370.1441218868076.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <87h9nc1ytx.fsf@netris.org> Reply-To: Mike Gran NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441219103 13932 80.91.229.3 (2 Sep 2015 18:38:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 18:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , "20907@debbugs.gnu.org" <20907@debbugs.gnu.org> To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 02 20:38:10 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXCvB-0005hV-Sd for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; 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In the papers I've read on GC, >"mark" is the word I usually see, and it seems much clearer to me, >because anyone who knows the basics of GC knows that "marking" is needed >to prevent an object from being freed, whereas "scanning" could mean >anything. That would help, I think. I guess I was associating "scan" with the "sweep" part of mark and sweep. Thanks very much for the clarification. Mike