Re: Updating NEWS for 1.6.8 release.

[Rob Browning]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes, for `(call/cc make-stack)'.  make-stack is supposed to be able to
> construct a stack from a continuation, a debug object, or from `#t',
> which means the current evaluation stack.  But the make-stack code was
> missing a lot of the relocations that are needed in the
> continuation case.  The symptom was a segmentation fault.
>
> I forget now exactly how I discovered this, though.  Is it worth me
> trying to dig that up?

Not as far as I'm concerned, though would a trivial NEWS entry be
appropriate?  i.e. perhaps something like

 ** make-stack can now correctly construct a stack from a continuation.

if that's correct.

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Rob Browning
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