Re: Guile 2.0.1: scm_init_guile() broken on Mac OS X 10.6.7

[Andy Wingo]

On Fri 20 May 2011 13:31, Hans Aberg <address@hidden> writes:

> On 20 May 2011, at 12:11, Andy Wingo wrote:
>
>>> On Mac OS X 10.6.7, compiled using Xcode Version 3.2.6 64-bit,
>>> i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1, scm_init_guile() gives the
>>> error:
>>> 
>>>  Failed to get stack base for current thread.
> ...
>> As you can see we rely on libgc here, and so this is a libgc bug.  Can
>> you try a newer libgc, or if that still fails, bring it up on their
>> list?
>
> On Mac OS X, one must call GC_init() (not necessary on GNU/Linux). Has
> that dropped out in guile-2.0.1?

I really have no idea.  As you see in 2.0.1 we rely on libgc for
detecting stack boundaries in the non-scm_with_guile case, as is
appropriate I think.  As for GC_init() I don't know, and would be
surprised if that were the case.

Andy
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