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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: plugged a memleak
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:02:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iphx8y68.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87haxllkzr.fsf@pobox.com

Hi!

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> skribis:

> I just fixed a long-standing memory leak in Guile 2.0.  (I say that like
> I'm proud or something, but of course I was the one the introduced it in
> the first place!)

Excellent!

> See c05805a4ea764dec5a0559edefcdfb9761191d07 in stable-2.0 for the
> gnarly details.  The summary is that applicable smobs were being leaked,
> because they were referenced in the values of weak-key tables.

I was wondering whether removing ‘smob-call’ would break binary
compatibility, but presumably that instruction could not possibly end up
in user bytecode on disk, right?

Thanks,
Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-21 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-18 20:20 plugged a memleak Andy Wingo
2012-03-21 21:02 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2012-03-21 22:03   ` Andy Wingo
2012-03-23 18:03     ` Ludovic Courtès

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