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From: Miroslav Silovic <miro@puremagic.com>
Cc: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>,  guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gen gc
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:08:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D36AFBC.1000206@puremagic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 15669.63974.973133.308661@blauw.xs4all.nl

Han-Wen wrote:

>mvo@zagadka.ping.de writes:
>  
>
>>Han-Wen <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> writes:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>How is this supposed to portable to GenGC? 
>>>
>>>   SCM_DEFINE (scm_object_address, "object-address", 1, 0, 0,
>>>            (SCM obj),
>>>	    "Return an integer that for the lifetime of @var{obj} is uniquely\n"
>>>	    "returned by this function for @var{obj}")
>>>
>>>This is used in some of the goops code -- should I retain it? 
>>>      
>>>
>>It would be cool if you could fake it.  It doesn't need to be the real
>>memory address of the object, just a unique integer.
>>    
>>
>
>?
>
>What if I can't?  Memory cells are going to move around. I don't see a
>way to generate a unique number without making some kind of table for
>objects subjected to object-address. 
>  
>
Actually it only says it should be unique, not never-changing. In 
particular,
all it needs for eq? to grok it is uniqueness. I guess just returning 
the address
ought to work, no?

    Miro



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  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-18 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-17 21:59 gen gc Han-Wen
2002-07-17 22:54 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-17 23:12   ` Han-Wen
2002-07-18 12:08     ` Miroslav Silovic [this message]
2002-07-18 12:08       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-19  3:59         ` Rob Browning
2002-07-19  9:39           ` Han-Wen
2002-07-19 15:40             ` Rob Browning
2002-07-19 19:07               ` Tom Lord
2002-07-19 21:07               ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-19 21:32                 ` Rob Browning
2002-07-19 22:33                   ` Han-Wen
2002-07-19 23:31                     ` Rob Browning
2002-07-19 22:58         ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-18 16:00     ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-18 16:21       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-19 22:55     ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-20  8:06       ` Neil Jerram

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