Re: stumped by scm_car/scm_cdr

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I've added a check to scm_cell/scm_double_cell that calls abort() if
> > GC is running.
> 
> Well, OK.  Another idea is to set the freelists to NULL during GC
> explicitely, thus causing scm_cell etc to call scm_gc_for_newcell
> immediately, and scm_gc_for_newcell could then check whether the GC is
> already running.  That would not make scm_cell etc slower for the
> usual case that the GC is in fact not running.  Could you try that
> variant?

I tried to look at this, but scm_i_freelist is now a thread-specific
variable. I'm unsure if and how they should all be set to null or
SCM_EOL.


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