Re: object->string can lead to scm_mallocated underflow

2001-05-10 Thread Michael Livshin
Bill Schottstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think there is an "scm_mallocated leak" in association with > object->string. oh. thanks for the report, I'll look at this later today. [ the whole approach of making things signed so that (if you are lucky) you can detect overflows stinks.

object->string can lead to scm_mallocated underflow

2001-05-10 Thread Bill Schottstaedt
I think there is an "scm_mallocated leak" in association with object->string. I ran into this while running a long debugging pass that was calling scm_object_to_string millions of times; eventually the program exited at line 1023 in gc.c (where it thinks scm_mallocated has underflowed). In fact,