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From: Matt Hellige <matt@immute.net>
Subject: Re: Continuations: possible newbie question
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:51:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021218175155.B25665@metro.immute.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3znr3ccvr.fsf@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net>; from neil@ossau.uklinux.net on Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:04:24PM +0000

[Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>]
> >>>>> "Matt" == Matt Hellige <matt@immute.net> writes:
> 
>     Matt> Well, at this point it definitely seems to be a bug.
> 
> I tried your original code in my copy of stable branch Guile CVS
> (i.e. 1.6.x), and it worked as (you) expected.
> 
> So either this has been fixed, in which case you could try the just
> released 1.6.1, or it is something trickier to pin down, in which case
> what platform are you using etc.?
> 

Interesting. At first 1.6.1 showed the same behavior, but I got
suspicious that it was something about my config, and tried rebuilding
with different optimization settings. The problem went away.

I *believe* that the significant change was from -O3 to -O2. Based on
the little that I know about how guile is implemented, this doesn't
surprise me too much: I assume that the optimization somehow broke
guile's stack inspection magic. On the other hand, that could be way
off. As I said, I've been using guile (and scheme) for less than two
weeks now.

In any case, this is almost certainly not a bug in guile, but is it a
known issue with building? Is it documented anywhere that optimization
beyond -O2 may break guile? I couldn't find it in INSTALL, or anywhere
else, but I may have missed it. Perhaps it should be mentioned, as the
resulting behavior is definitely a bit mystifying. :)

On the other hand, I'll probably still not end up using this technique
to implement my call-backs, given the performance penalties and so on.
I hope I can just shuffle things around a bit in my native code...

Thanks very much for your help!

Matt

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-18 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-18 17:27 Continuations: possible newbie question Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-12-18 18:14 ` Matt Hellige
2002-12-18 20:04   ` Neil Jerram
2002-12-18 23:51     ` Matt Hellige [this message]
2002-12-19  0:41       ` Marius Vollmer
2002-12-19  2:42         ` Matt Hellige
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-18 18:42 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-12-18  0:14 Matt Hellige

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