From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: scm_remember_upto_here asm volatile Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 10:24:46 +1000 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87he7rwzox.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <874r4186ty.fsf@zip.com.au> <87znll48wr.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053303988 21625 80.91.224.249 (19 May 2003 00:26:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 00:26:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 19 02:26:27 2003 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 19HYTz-0005cT-00 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 02:26:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19HYTh-0003PY-09 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 May 2003 20:26:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19HYT2-0002pc-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 May 2003 20:25:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19HYSo-00021V-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 May 2003 20:25:19 -0400 Original-Received: from snoopy.pacific.net.au ([61.8.0.36]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19HYSd-0001GT-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 May 2003 20:25:03 -0400 Original-Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny.pacific.net.au [203.2.228.40]) h4J0P0xh012065 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 10:25:00 +1000 Original-Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id h4J0OxQg012866 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 10:24:59 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (ppp34.dyn228.pacific.net.au [203.143.228.34]) by wisma.pacific.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4J0OvYZ025568 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 10:24:58 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19HYSM-0000eT-00; Mon, 19 May 2003 10:24:46 +1000 Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <87znll48wr.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "17 May 2003 22:26:12 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2405 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2405 Marius Vollmer writes: > > But please understand that this is a critical and tricky corner of > Guile. Bugs might show up on odd platforms and might be very > sensitive to the environment that scm_remember_upto_here is used in. With the bignum code, is it true that the only problem will be if a gc starts in another thread at the critical moment? If currently the gmp code just uses malloc I guess it won't run a gc from within the mpz functions as such. That wasn't the case in the old code though, if I read scm_i_mkbig rightly. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel