Re: module GC bug

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Marius Vollmer wrote:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > I've found a memory leak in GUILE.
> >
> > The contents of modules are not garbage collected.
>
>
> I believe this is fixed in CVS HEAD now in the 'proper' way:
>
>     guile> (define g (make-guardian))
>     guile> (g (make-module))
>     guile> (gc)
>     guile> (g)
>     #<module b7b859b0>
>
> The fix consists of storing procedure properties in a weak key
> hashtable (as you did), and fixing weak hashtables so that cycles from
> the value back to the key get properly collected.

Thanks!

> I think this change is a too large to go into 1.6, tho.  Is there a
> workaround that you could put into your code, such as

>     (set-procedure-property! (module-eval-closure M) 'module #f)
>
> in an appropriate place?

Yes, I've already done that.  Any idea of when we will see this in a 
release?

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