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From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Updating NEWS for 1.6.8 release.
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:29:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ach880ar.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y84s82ju.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:40:37 +0100")

Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:

> Yes, for `(call/cc make-stack)'.  make-stack is supposed to be able to
> construct a stack from a continuation, a debug object, or from `#t',
> which means the current evaluation stack.  But the make-stack code was
> missing a lot of the relocations that are needed in the
> continuation case.  The symptom was a segmentation fault.
>
> I forget now exactly how I discovered this, though.  Is it worth me
> trying to dig that up?

Not as far as I'm concerned, though would a trivial NEWS entry be
appropriate?  i.e. perhaps something like

 ** make-stack can now correctly construct a stack from a continuation.

if that's correct.

-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-17 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-15 18:46 Updating NEWS for 1.6.8 release Rob Browning
2005-10-15 21:40 ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-16  3:10   ` Rob Browning
2005-10-16 20:38     ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-16 23:08       ` Kevin Ryde
2005-10-17 17:40         ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-17 18:29           ` Rob Browning [this message]
2005-10-17 18:51             ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-16 18:43 ` Rob Browning
2005-10-16 23:16   ` Kevin Ryde
2005-10-16 23:43     ` Rob Browning
2005-10-16 23:12 ` Kevin Ryde
2005-10-16 23:17   ` Rob Browning

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