From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: SCM_STRING_CHARS is deprecated. See the manual for alternatives. Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:30:56 +1000 Message-ID: <87lkpwp0zj.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <44DAAEC6.7080007@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155256334 18329 80.91.229.2 (11 Aug 2006 00:32:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:32:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 11 02:32:12 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 1GBKwd-0006nK-9G for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:32:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GBKwc-00084r-Nf for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:32:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GBKwX-00082l-Ta for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:32:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GBKwU-00081t-A3 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:32:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GBKwU-00081q-2K for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [61.8.0.115] (helo=mailout2.pacific.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GBL1T-0001Wc-6Y; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:37:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (mailproxy2.pacific.net.au [61.8.2.163]) by mailout2.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F7C10A10E; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:31:55 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (ppp25E0.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.37.224]) by mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge1) with ESMTP id k7B0VYDw024058; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:31:50 +1000 Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GBKvQ-0002BA-00; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:30:56 +1000 Original-To: bkorb@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <44DAAEC6.7080007@gnu.org> (Bruce Korb's message of "Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:57:58 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) 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:6023 Archived-At: Bruce Korb writes: > > There are also a few magic values stuffed into memory before a > symbol's characters, but you don't want to know about those. What > cruft! That para sounds a bit unnecessary, doesn't it :). > Note that `SCM_VECTOR_BASE', `SCM_STRING_CHARS' and > `SCM_SYMBOL_CHARS' return pointers to data within the respective > object. Care must be taken that the object is not garbage collected > while that data is still being accessed. This is the same as for a > smob, *Note Remembering During Operations::. Not sure if that's true any more either. Is the "remembering" protection enough now? _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel