From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Abhijeet More Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Implementation of the promise smob Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:10:20 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282270236 7516 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2010 02:10:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:10:36 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org, Tibi Turbureanu , Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 20 04:10:34 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmH3r-0003bc-WA for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:10:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49909 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OmH3r-0001mY-FV for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34728 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OmH3m-0001m4-RQ for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:10:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmH3l-0005GR-Nz for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:10:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:50195) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmH3l-0005GJ-KX for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:10:21 -0400 Original-Received: by qwk4 with SMTP id 4so2590581qwk.0 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:10:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Ztro1MBdrDz9R3XbQrmeHpAEq8wS4Uw9rdu2fhNYew4=; b=bt+kz6pusy41MwOz0toeosXKZBl2cGPOFH59dvYLjIlWLsvIROy/k8VKXh6pFQkcgl dqwdWz6k0WMLOF6IB7PAreFkvjUNSbdMnK6q/9j2H0RCiq/nZm88pZuOnpHVqP/znq31 v12nzwOPpevuEpCRQ0mEEO2ytobXrVO4nECqw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=Zrjb1jstcYQur5sRERj04TSQjnpbh1d7M2JN+p9ybKv7OJvwX1HFHKD2tFTdI/+i6H itXyisC7Ayid4IY5Q+wMmEW+TW+CHldUlJIazdw9NzDbv8udTC9voSTPDYV8tR/BlmeF KzCu4/6crjrQWqPYM1Cup+tGoT2Y0TAhpzQ98= Original-Received: by 10.224.36.207 with SMTP id u15mr453343qad.332.1282270220387; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.231.76 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:10:20 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:8086 Archived-At: Hi, I noticed that the implementation of the "promise" smob did not have any "mark" function defined. This smob does contain a couple of other SCM objects. Can someone explain how these objects are not cleared up by the gc (since nobody marks them as live)? Thanks Abhijeet