I found out, as a response to myself that the tag guile-2.0.5 does not share the same issues as the master branch. I will attempt to figure out where and when the problem is introduced, but it will be helpful if anyone knows about a change which might involve different/weird GC behavior.
Regards, Sjoerd 2012/4/23 Sjoerd van Leent <svanle...@gmail.com> > Dear readers, > > Recently I upgraded my machine to Trisquel 5.5 (x86_64). > > While I used Trisquel 5, I had no issues compiling guile, however now it > appears all hell broke losoe. > > When compiling I get to the generation stage of GEN guile-procedures.texi. > The stage ends up with a Segmentation fault. I have been debugging the > lt_guile process with gdb, and some interesting things happened. The > process received SIGPWR and SIGXCPU signals (in a loop), and eventually > ends up with a SIGSEGV message from the procedure: GC_generic_malloc_inner. > > I ended up attempting to build the bdw-gc from scratch and link in the 7.1 > stable version, but resulting in the same situation. > > I have no idea where the problem initiates, as it appears to be happening > in a certain time interval (probably thread switching) and there is no way > to pinpoint the problem in scheme itself. Even just looping around > generates this error. > > Now, when I went through the make output I noticed some interesting things > while compiling libguile_2.2_la-weak-table.lo: > > weak-table.c: In function 'move_disappearing_links': > weak-table.c:164:7: warning: passing argument 1 of > 'GC_unregister_disappearing_link' from incompatible pointer type [enabled > by > default] > > /usr/local/include/gc/gc.h:771:12: note: expected 'void **' but argument > is of type 'scm_t_bits *' > weak-table.c:165:7: warning: passing argument 1 of > 'GC_general_register_disappearing_link' from incompatible pointer type > [enabled by > default] > > /usr/local/include/gc/gc.h:744:12: note: expected 'void **' but argument > is of type 'scm_t_bits *' > weak-table.c:175:7: warning: passing argument 1 of > 'GC_unregister_disappearing_link' from incompatible pointer type [enabled > by > default] > > /usr/local/include/gc/gc.h:771:12: note: expected 'void **' but argument > is of type 'scm_t_bits *' > weak-table.c:176:7: warning: passing argument 1 of > 'GC_general_register_disappearing_link' from incompatible pointer type > [enabled by > default] > > /usr/local/include/gc/gc.h:744:12: note: expected 'void **' but argument > is of type 'scm_t_bits *' > > And although perhaps less important, when compiling libguile_2.2_la-gc.lo: > > gc.c:212:1: warning: 'GC_get_free_space_divisor' defined but not used > [-Wunused-function] > > As I can't see anyone (yet) having this problem, I consider it might be > rather unique, but I really would like to know what possibly could be going > wrong and where I should start debugging. > > > >
