From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: Guile Users <guile-user@gnu.org>, guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GC missed reference on Windows
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:58:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r7qyn1rx.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040725130435.GA1118@cassis.laas.fr> (Ludovic Courtès's message of "Sun, 25 Jul 2004 15:04:37 +0200")
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@chbouib.org> writes:
> Running Guile 1.6.4 within Valgrind [1] actually shows quite a lot
> of suspicious things, most notably use of uninitialized values or
> conditional jumps that depend on uninitialized values in the GC code
> (eg. in `scm_gc_mark ()' IIRC). I haven't tried to dig into this so
> far due to lack of time and I don't have Valgrind right here so I
> can't give you more details. Did anyone try that before?
I think so. Guile does some unusual things with memory (as compared
to other programs), so valgrind may or may not be reporting real bugs.
Here's an earlier thread on the same topic:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2003-01/msg00005.html
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-24 10:43 GC missed reference on Windows Neil Jerram
2004-07-24 16:46 ` Rob Browning
2004-07-24 21:24 ` Neil Jerram
2004-07-24 22:38 ` Rob Browning
2004-07-26 18:56 ` Neil Jerram
2004-08-04 14:36 ` Rob Browning
2004-08-01 20:16 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-07-25 13:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2004-07-26 16:58 ` Rob Browning [this message]
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