From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: GC missed reference on Windows Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:58:42 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87r7qyn1rx.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> References: <41023D61.2010308@ossau.uklinux.net> <20040725130435.GA1118@cassis.laas.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090861227 15986 80.91.224.253 (26 Jul 2004 17:00:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:00:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Users , guile-devel Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 26 19:00:10 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bp8pd-0004Ud-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:00:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bp8sg-0006gP-C8 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:03:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bp8sb-0006el-0Q for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:03:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bp8sZ-0006dN-74 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:03:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bp8sZ-0006d2-3S; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:03:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.93.216.237] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bp8pO-0003Fc-FJ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:59:54 -0400 Original-Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (omen.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F7C440CB; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:59:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by trouble.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 74E41410AC; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:58:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Neil Jerram In-Reply-To: <20040725130435.GA1118@cassis.laas.fr> (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?q?Court=E8s's?= message of "Sun, 25 Jul 2004 15:04:37 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (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: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3892 gmane.lisp.guile.user:3354 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3892 Ludovic Court=E8s 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 --=20 Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 =3D 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 7= 3A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel