On Thu 23 Jun 2016 18:59, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes: > I don't see anything protecting sym_big or sym_little (more accurately, > 'big or 'little which are non-immediate SCM values) from collection > which would make sym_big and sym_little useless for comparison. > > I'm assuming that not the whole bss segment is getting scanned by > BoehmGC.
The whole bss segment is scanned by the GC :) See the third paragraph here. https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/Garbage-Collection.html#Garbage-Collection This section applies to 2.0 as well. Andy
