Re: Segmentation fault in CVS

2005-12-09 Thread Neil Jerram
Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Neil Jerram wrote: >> I'm seeing a failure of the test-system-cmds test, and have narrowed >> it down to this: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/guile-cvs-head/guile/guile-core$ ./pre-inst-guile -q >> guile> (exit 42) >> Segmentation fault > > Marius was saying someth

*still* can't compile guile 1.7

2005-12-09 Thread Andy Wingo
Hey, When compiling latest CVS on x86-64 SMP, I still cannot build. It hangs when snarfing docs, like so (prepare yourself): creating guile cat alist.doc arbiters.doc async.doc backtrace.doc boolean.doc chars.doc continuations.doc debug.doc deprecation.doc deprecated.doc discouraged.doc dynl.doc

Re: Future of ice-9/slib.scm.

2005-12-09 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suppose that leaves just the vicinity related definitions in > question. As far as I can tell, the vicinity related definitions aren't exported or documented, so I think we can just drop those too. For those still following this discussion, I'm planni

Re: What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c?

2005-12-09 Thread Kevin Ryde
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This would only work if you forbid side-effects, right? Well, leave it up to the application to keep itself out of trouble if the code is not reentrant. That'd be consistent a general policy of not stopping stupid multi-thread code, only code that migh

Re: What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c?

2005-12-09 Thread Rob Browning
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I was also wondering about the possibilities for deadlock with the >> current code, and then what they might be with a srfi-45 force, > > Whenever arbitrary code executes in a mutex I guess there's scope for > that. srfi-45 shouldn't be inherently worse.