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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
Cc: Miroslav Silovic <miro@puremagic.com>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gen gc
Date: 20 Jul 2002 00:58:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fzyfcok3.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15670.44970.137101.467470@meddo.cs.uu.nl>

Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> writes:

> Anyways, the goops code only uses the address for printing, so it
> would safe to return the address. I suggest that the documentation be
> changed to
> 
> 	"Return the address of OBJ as an integer. Note that this
> 	address may change between runs due to garbage collection."

I'd say it would be better to also change the name of the function so
that nobody is tricked by the changed semantics.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-19 22:58 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
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 [this message]
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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