Hi, Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The `if' you put, with an fprintf stderr, should be fine. I think you're right. Here's the updated patch. Thanks, Ludovic. 2006-02-14 Ludovic Courtès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *strings.c (scm_i_take_stringbufn): Register LEN + 1 octets instead of LEN. Without this, too much collectable memory gets unregistered, which results in an underflow of SCM_MALLOCATED in `decrease_mtrigger ()'. * gc-malloc.c (decrease_mtrigger): Make sure SIZE is lower than or equal to SCM_MALLOCATED. --- orig/libguile/gc-malloc.c +++ mod/libguile/gc-malloc.c @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ #include <unistd.h> #endif + /* INIT_MALLOC_LIMIT is the initial amount of malloc usage which will trigger a GC. @@ -184,6 +185,16 @@ decrease_mtrigger (size_t size, const char * what) { scm_i_pthread_mutex_lock (&scm_i_gc_admin_mutex); + + if (size > scm_mallocated) + { + fprintf (stderr, "`scm_mallocated' underflow. This means that more " + "memory was unregistered\n" + "via `scm_gc_unregister_collectable_memory ()' than " + "registered.\n"); + abort (); + } + scm_mallocated -= size; scm_gc_malloc_collected += size; scm_i_pthread_mutex_unlock (&scm_i_gc_admin_mutex); --- orig/libguile/strings.c +++ mod/libguile/strings.c @@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ } } -/* Return a new stringbuf whose underlying storage consists of the LEN octets - pointed to by STR. */ +/* Return a new stringbuf whose underlying storage consists of the LEN+1 + octets pointed to by STR (the last octet is zero). */ SCM_C_INLINE SCM scm_i_take_stringbufn (char *str, size_t len) { - scm_gc_register_collectable_memory (str, len, "stringbuf"); + scm_gc_register_collectable_memory (str, len + 1, "stringbuf"); return scm_double_cell (STRINGBUF_TAG, (scm_t_bits) str, (scm_t_bits) len, (scm_t_bits) 0); _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel