From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: scheme closures: crash during garbage collection Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:49:31 +0200 Message-ID: <1161942572.27538.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <64e2f6fe0606081528m4e5f9979yff9b8294ecedf6d2@mail.gmail.com> <87odx2ds0o.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87mzclmjq8.fsf@zagadka.de> <87odwyt33x.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87u05s2l1e.fsf@zagadka.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161942470 25618 80.91.229.2 (27 Oct 2006 09:47:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:47:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 27 11:47:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GdOJU-0002bc-7X for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:47:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GdOJT-0007C5-Mg for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GdOJO-0007Bt-OB for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:47:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GdOJN-0007BP-3l for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:47:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GdOJM-0007BL-To for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:47:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [216.27.85.7] (helo=kettle.ambient-hosting.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GdOJM-0004BO-UT for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:47:37 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (ambient-hosting.net [10.1.6.1]) by kettle.ambient-hosting.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF8188087 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:47:35 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2841B11963E; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:49:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87u05s2l1e.fsf@zagadka.de> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6193 Archived-At: Hi, I'm just now getting around to taking care of this oldie. On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 18:06 +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote: > Neil Jerram writes: > > (See > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-gtk-general/2006-06/msg00013.html > > if you didn't see the whole description on guile-gtk-general already.) [...] > By using this combination of tracing and reference counting it is > possible to break the cycle that is formed by the proxy pointing to > the GtkObject and the GtkObject pointing back. I'm going to look into what it would take to use mark functions, as guile-gtk does, instead of rolling our GC protection scheme, as Gregory did[0]. I'll also look into what python does, as they probably have things right. Then again, I thought I had things right... [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-gtk-general/2006-07/msg00056.html Cheers, Andy. -- http://wingolog.org/ _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel