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[elk] Re: found bug related to GC crash



On Saturday 07 August 2004 11:50, martin rumori wrote:
Hi Martin!

Thanks for your patch. Good news.
May bug.scm (do you mean the one sent to lists.zoy.org) did crash with 3.99.6, 
latest version. Well, it takes some time to crash indeed. I am going to apply 
the patch and check it out.

Alex
> hi *,
>
> attached a patch which fixes a bug leading to crash the garbage
> collector.  in the elk-3.0 code it's apparently present, too.
>
> the smallest type number assigned to the first defined type was by one
> too small: thus handing out T_Broken_Hart (with sc gc) oder freetype
> (gc-gen).
>
> my dummy-test:
>
> (define (crash)
> 	(collect)
> 	(crash))
> (crash)
>
> does not crash anymore.
>
> surprisingly, alexander lechner's bug.scm doesn't crash neither on the
> fixed nor the unfixed version.  was that bug.scm for elk-3.0 or
> elk-3.99.6?  AFAIK some GC bugs were fixed between 3.0 and -99.6.
>
> bests,
>
> martin

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