From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: 1.8 status and 64-bit data corruption Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:08:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87d5g98ibo.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143379538 25100 80.91.229.2 (26 Mar 2006 13:25:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:25:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 26 15:25:34 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 1FNVFI-0005CU-7Z for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 15:25:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FNVFG-000749-5J for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:25:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FNVF7-00071s-NP for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:25:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FNVF4-00070k-RE for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:25:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FNV2n-0004sl-3m for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:12:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.84.72.33] (helo=mail3.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FNV44-0005Wy-Ap for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:13:52 -0500 Original-Received: from laruns (host86-142-181-172.range86-142.btcentralplus.com [86.142.181.172]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DDB4409FC5 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:12:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from laruns (laruns [127.0.0.1]) by laruns (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA51DD7299 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:08:11 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Guile Development User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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:5805 Archived-At: I believe the only important 1.8 bug still outstanding is the one which causes Scheme data corruption on 64-bit platforms - and which is usually enough to cause the build to fail in snarf-check-and-output-texi. Is there anything else of equal impact that I've forgotten? I'm not sure how to proceed with debugging this (or rather with advising someone else how to debug it, since I don't have a 64-bit box myself), so does anyone else have ideas? I've been assuming it's a GC problem, i.e. data which should be marked but isn't for some reason, but I guess it need not be; it could just be something modifying part of the Scheme heap by mistake. Here are references to some of the relevant threads. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2006-02/msg00044.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guile/2006-02/msg00009.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guile/2006-02/msg00016.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2006-03/msg00008.html Regards, Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel