From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: 1.5.8 "make check" on powerpc Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 00:15:40 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <15735.55180.699704.678461@blauw.xs4all.nl> References: <5862.1030628301@www6.gmx.net> Reply-To: hanwen@cs.uu.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031263889 2098 127.0.0.1 (5 Sep 2002 22:11:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 22:11:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Wolfgang =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E4hrling?= , guile-devel@gnu.org, wolfgang@pro-linux.de Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17n4qU-0000XL-00 for ; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 00:11:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17n4s7-00019N-00; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17n4rR-00014d-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:12:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17n4rP-00014R-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl ([194.109.127.141]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17n4rO-00014K-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:12:22 -0400 Original-Received: from blauw.xs4all.nl (blauw.xs4all.nl [213.84.26.127]) by smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g85MCCii032302; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 00:12:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Dirk Herrmann In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.05 under Emacs 21.2.1 Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1316 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1316 dirk@sallust.ida.ing.tu-bs.de writes: > Hello, > > although I have to admit that I have not looked into those specific test > cases myself I would like to point out the following: Some UNRESOLVED > issues may be due to guile's garbage collection: You can not guarantee > that something gets collected, although you expect it to. The reason is > that guile scans the C execution stack for potential references to > objects. Some non-SCM values may irritate the gc and keep objects from > being collected. The two cases below might belong to such a category. > Probably we should clarify this issue in the names of the test cases. I believe that the error is that the object is in fact collected, when it should not have been. At least, that's what I gather from the message. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | hanwen@cs.uu.nl | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel