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Re: plugged a memleak
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: plugged a memleak |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:02:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
Hi!
Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:
> I just fixed a long-standing memory leak in Guile 2.0. (I say that like
> I'm proud or something, but of course I was the one the introduced it in
> the first place!)
Excellent!
> See c05805a4ea764dec5a0559edefcdfb9761191d07 in stable-2.0 for the
> gnarly details. The summary is that applicable smobs were being leaked,
> because they were referenced in the values of weak-key tables.
I was wondering whether removing ‘smob-call’ would break binary
compatibility, but presumably that instruction could not possibly end up
in user bytecode on disk, right?
Thanks,
Ludo’.