Re: stumped by scm_car/scm_cdr

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I tried setting a breakpoint on this function, but if I do, the run
> > completes as expected normally.
> 
> One more idea: it might be that you (harmlessly) used SCM_CAR or
> SCM_CDR on a non-pair but scm_car/scm_cdr are now complaining about
> this by throwing an error.  That error might happen in a context where
> throwing does not work, or might lead to endless recursion, or some
> other anomaly.  Try replacing the call to scm_wrong_type_arg_msg in
> scm_car and scm_cdr with a simple abort.

I tried to remove all fishy looking places where SCM_C[AD]R were used,
and now it seems to work OK. You might want to consider just doing
abort() or a something similar as a standard. If the C code uses the
API incorrectly, then (IMO) this is not something that should be
signaled at Scheme level using scm_error(), because no amount of
Scheme coding can fixup such errors.

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 Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden   |   http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen