From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: abort () is scm_gc_sweep ()
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:50:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r80d170h.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031010133428.GK7199@powergnu.laas.fr> ( Ludovic Courtès's message of "Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:34:31 +0200")
Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr> writes:
> In function scm_gc_sweep () (gc.c:1922) appears the following condition:
>
> if (scm_mallocated < m)
> abort ();
>
> The comment above the abort () is very clear about why this happens.
> However, since the triggering of this abort () can only be due to the
> non respect of Guile's programming conventions by the programmer, I
> think it would be a good idea to rather use something like
>
> assert (scm_mallocated < m);
>
> instead of just abort ().
Yes, that would be better. There are a lot of places where we use
abort. Maybe most of them could be changed to assertions.
So, if someone has a patch... ;-)
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