On Wed 11 Jan 2017 22:33, Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > On Sat 05 Nov 2016 19:16, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes: > >> I was just testing a function, and before I figured out what is >> happening, it is segfaulting on: >> (mkstemp! "XX" 0) >> >> I don't say, I am using it right. It should not segfault. > > I agree. This is a pending topic in Guile. (The reason, of course: > mutating literal constants is not valid Scheme. Guile allocates > some constant literals in read-only memory. Mutating that memory, or > attempting to do so, segfaults, as you have seen. We should raise an > error instead.)
Sigh, spoke too soon. This one turned out to be a rather more ordinary bug. Fixed in git on both branches. Thanks for the report! Andy
