From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: port initialization? Date: 10 Aug 2002 15:33:52 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <877kiy7s8v.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <15693.15724.416839.636665@blauw.xs4all.nl> <15698.55934.287636.6739@blauw.xs4all.nl> <87sn1pt5md.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <0208081820210Z.05101@locke.free-expression.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028986398 9656 127.0.0.1 (10 Aug 2002 13:33:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 13:33:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hanwen@cs.uu.nl, guile-devel@gnu.org 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 17dWMn-0002Vc-00 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 15:33:17 +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 17dWNa-0005Ih-00; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 09:34:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17dWNN-0005IT-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 09:33:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17dWNL-0005IH-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 09:33:52 -0400 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway42.dip88.dokom.de ([195.138.42.88] helo=zagadka.ping.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 17dWNL-0005IC-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 09:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 32524 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Aug 2002 13:33:52 -0000 Original-To: Lynn Winebarger In-Reply-To: <0208081820210Z.05101@locke.free-expression.org> Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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:1055 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1055 Lynn Winebarger writes: > If you're running out of memory, you might be in a deeply > recursed procedure that hasn't set any global variables, > so when it aborts, many megabytes become garbage. It's > not that unusual. Yes, but for throwing the error, we will also need some fresh storage, I think. We could arrange things so that aborting will always work, but I'm afraid that would be quite tricky, and for little gain on a Unix-like OS. Might be different for embedded systems. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel