Ludovic Courtès schreef op ma 04-07-2022 om 12:09 [+0200]:
> > Also, what if you mmap a region, use bytevector->pointer and pass
> > it to
> > some C thing, which saves the pointer somewhere where boehm-gc can
> > find
> > it and boehm-gc considers it to be live, is there something that
> > prevent
Ludovic Courtès schreef op ma 04-07-2022 om 12:09 [+0200]:
> But we could provide special semantics: the bytevector would become
> zero-length (possible, but weird, as Maxime points out), or it would
> be turned into a /dev/zero mapping (weird as well).
>
> Thoughts?
The former is weird and can c
Ludovic Courtès schreef op ma 04-07-2022 om 12:09 [+0200]:
> I don’t think the optimizer makes any such assumption, except for
> literal bytevectors.
It _does_ assume that bytevector lengths don't change:
,use (rnrs bytevectors)
,compile (bytevector-u8-ref some-variable 999)
;;; : warning: possi
Thomas Lord was an early (or the first?) maintainer of guile
from https://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2022-06-26/article/49837
Obituaries
Thomas Lord
1966-2022
Trina Pundurs
Monday June 27, 2022 - 05:21:00 PM
Thomas Lord was born April 26, 1966 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where
he lived unt
