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From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: Miroslav Silovic <miro@puremagic.com>,
	Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>,
	guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gen gc
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:59:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r8i0s706.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15670.44970.137101.467470@meddo.cs.uu.nl> (Han-Wen Nienhuys's message of "Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:08:10 +0200")

Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> writes:

> Anyways, the goops code only uses the address for printing, so it
> would safe to return the address. I suggest that the documentation be
> changed to
>
> 	"Return the address of OBJ as an integer. Note that this
> 	address may change between runs due to garbage collection."

Alternately if we really need a unique value, and if it's only used
for printing -- couldn't we just use a good old fashioned integer
counter?  What's the point of printing the address of the object if
it's only the transient address of the object, unless perhaps the
value's only intended for debugging?

-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org
Previously @cs.utexas.edu
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-19  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-17 21:59 gen gc Han-Wen
2002-07-17 22:54 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-17 23:12   ` Han-Wen
2002-07-18 12:08     ` Miroslav Silovic
2002-07-18 12:08       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-19  3:59         ` Rob Browning [this message]
2002-07-19  9:39           ` Han-Wen
2002-07-19 15:40             ` Rob Browning
2002-07-19 19:07               ` Tom Lord
2002-07-19 21:07               ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-19 21:32                 ` Rob Browning
2002-07-19 22:33                   ` Han-Wen
2002-07-19 23:31                     ` Rob Browning
2002-07-19 22:58         ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-18 16:00     ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-18 16:21       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-19 22:55     ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-20  8:06       ` Neil Jerram

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