From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: plugged a memleak Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:02:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87iphx8y68.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87haxllkzr.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332363798 23065 80.91.229.3 (21 Mar 2012 21:03:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:03:18 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 21 22:03:18 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SASgc-0006Y8-SZ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:03:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34128 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SASgc-0001fE-8F for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43625) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SASga-0001er-5S for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:03:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SASgY-0005lM-6E for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:03:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38734) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SASgX-0005l7-Vs for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:03:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SASgT-0006Lq-Fv for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:03:05 +0100 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:03:05 +0100 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:03:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 2 Germinal an 220 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6wcrqS9acnhM5zVZwdPgBYrlMGk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:14146 Archived-At: Hi! Andy Wingo 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’.