Re: guile 1.5.2 build on ia64 ... successful gc'ing

[stefan]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Rob Browning wrote:

> Exactly.  I figured we might want something like this, but I wasn't
> sure what an appropriate name would be, and where it should go.  I
> also didn't know if the relevant code could possibly be refactored to
> allow for a more general operation that covered both.
> 
> Am I correct here that in both the sparc and ia64 case, what you're
> really trying to do is make sure *all* the state is available
> somewhere where the GC can see it?  If so, could we have something
> like SCM_FLUSH_ARCH_STATE and/or SCM_SCAN_ARCH_STATE?

SCM_FLUSH_ARCH_STATE would need target and the scan afterwards.
SCM_SCAN_ARCH_STATE could do everything at once.

> OK, I've just finished adding the patches to my 1.5 tree.  I'll patch
> them over to the dev tree and then commit.  I should have a 1.5.3
> ready today or tomorrow.

Fine.

Cheers,
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