Re: RFD: drop the GH interface.

2008-09-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The GH interface was marked as deprecated in > > commit a0143ebc24c24198e0dfce9b80f3648feb706226 > Author: Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed Jun 20 22:08:19 2001 + > > * Explain GH deprecation & plan for scm documentation. > > > L

Re: Goops & Valgrind

2008-09-13 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 11 Sep 2008 23:06, "Neil Jerram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Classes that are not metaclasses allocate their instances using "light >> structs". So the object layout goes like this: >> >> the vtable word the data word >>+-

vm status update

2008-09-13 Thread Andy Wingo
Hello, A small update. Since I wrote last, the compiler now puts program names in with program metadata, and programs print in a much more human-readable fashion: scheme@(guile-user)> module-ref $2 = # Some bugs were fixed in disassembly, allowing the addition of the following two sectio

advice on reducing C stack frame size?

2008-09-13 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, With a local patch, it seems that my C stack frames are getting large enough to start hitting the stack overflow checks. (In the future this won't be a terrible problem, as you won't be recursively calling the evaluator the the vm then the evaluator etc too much, but while we still have a fai

Re: advice on reducing C stack frame size?

2008-09-13 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Andy Wingo escreveu: > Hi, > > With a local patch, it seems that my C stack frames are getting large > enough to start hitting the stack overflow checks. > > (In the future this won't be a terrible problem, as you won't be > recursively calling the evaluator the the vm then the evaluator etc too