[guile-vm] [patch] Building guile-vm on amd64 Ubuntu

Hi there, I'm posting a bunch of small patches to improve the building of guile-vm on Ubuntu amd64. I haven't tested _running_ the programs so far; perhaps I'll have more patches to send after playing with it a bit. Dale Smith mentioned on IRC that I may need to have copyright assignment papers s

Re: [guile-vm] [patch] Building guile-vm on amd64 Ubuntu

Hi, Just a couple of notes. "C. K. Jester-Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On the version of gnulib distributed with Ubuntu 8.04, the string module > is required for autoconf macros which use gl_HEADER_STRING_H_DEFAULTS to > work. Supposedly `gnulib-tool' pulls all the needed dependencies,

Re: [guile-vm] [patch] Building guile-vm on amd64 Ubuntu

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:22:08PM +0200, Ludovic_Courtès wrote: > Supposedly `gnulib-tool' pulls all the needed dependencies, so it should > pull `string'. Anyway, on `master', Gnulib files are now part of the > repository so one doesn't have to fiddle with Gnulib. Thanks for mentioning that. :-

the new gc asserts in master

Hi, I just merged master to guile-vm, but I'm not sure if I really wanted to do that now. Normal test suites are failing: lt-guile: gc.c:604: scm_i_gc: Assertion `scm_cells_allocated == scm_i_marked_count ()' failed. /home/wingo/src/guile/vm/test-suite/standalone/test-use-srfi: line 27:

Re: Race condition in threading code?

Hi, On Sat 16 Aug 2008 11:45, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Julian Graham escreveu: >> Hmmm... I don't recall seeing those when I was writing that test >> suite. Just to be clear, were you getting those errors before making >> your changes? > > No, but some very unrelated change

Re: [guile-vm] [patch] Building guile-vm on amd64 Ubuntu

Hi Chris, Thanks for the patches! All applied except for the Gnulib things. I've merged up with master so now there's no need to invoke gnulib-tool any more. Cheers, Andy ps. Get cracking on that paperwork! :-) -- http://wingolog.org/

Re: the new gc asserts in master

Andy Wingo escreveu: > Hi, > > I just merged master to guile-vm, but I'm not sure if I really wanted to > do that now. Normal test suites are failing: > > lt-guile: gc.c:604: scm_i_gc: Assertion `scm_cells_allocated == > scm_i_marked_count ()' failed. > /home/wingo/src/guile/vm/test-suit

Re: Race condition in threading code?

Andy Wingo escreveu: > Hi, > > On Sat 16 Aug 2008 11:45, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Julian Graham escreveu: >>> Hmmm... I don't recall seeing those when I was writing that test >>> suite. Just to be clear, were you getting those errors before making >>> your changes? >> No

Re: the new gc asserts in master

Han-Wen Nienhuys escreveu: >> even the lazy smob case I wrote about here: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user/6372 > > I would classify the use of mark bits outside of the mark phase as outside > of the defined API. If you want to have weak pointer semantics, use > a weak hash

Re: Race condition in threading code?

It could be an existing problem that is exposed by the new tighter allocation. With a larger heap, there are larger intervals between recollection of the heap. Let me run this through DEBUGINFO when I get the chance. On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Andy Wingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >