Re: Guile news 2

["Dale P. Smith" <dpsm at en dot com>]

Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:
> 
> * The core of Jost's environment patches (the environment
>   implementation) has finally been integrated into libguile by Dirk
>   Herrmann.  Jost did the original implementation, but Dirk has done
>   quite a lot of work on the implementation himself.
> 
>   We'll now review the code, experiment and think a little, and maybe
>   even incrementally replacing pieces of the current module system.

Looks like a review is in order all right. ;-)
This is with a cvs update of around 9pm EDT:

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(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/guile 

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x4006da89 in scm_ithrow (key=134527264, args=134547816, noreturn=1)
    at throw.c:620
620             }
(gdb) bt
#0  0x4006da89 in scm_ithrow (key=134527264, args=134547816, noreturn=1)
    at throw.c:620
#1  0x400336c4 in scm_error (key=134527264, subr=0x4008a38f
"string-append", 
    message=0x400861a0 "Wrong type argument: ~S", args=134547792,
rest=8564)
    at error.c:90
#2  0x40033b8c in scm_wrong_type_arg_msg (subr=0x4008a38f
"string-append", 
    pos=0, bad_value=134547256, szMessage=0x40033cae
"[\201Ã\222\232\005")
    at error.c:237
#3  0x40033d4c in scm_wta (arg=134547256, pos=0x0, 
    s_subr=0x4008a38f "string-append") at error.c:302
#4  0x40067e57 in scm_string_append (args=134547776) at strings.c:329
#5  0x4006a661 in scm_make_vtable_vtable (user_fields=134547736, 
    tail_array_size=2, init=10612) at struct.c:532
#6  0x40066511 in scm_init_stacks () at stacks.c:740
#7  0x4004a17e in scm_boot_guile_1 (base=0xbffffbf8, closure=0xbffffbfc)
    at init.c:557
#8  0x40049f94 in scm_boot_guile (argc=1, argv=0xbffffcb4, 
    main_func=0x80488a4 <inner_main>, closure=0x0) at init.c:446
#9  0x80488e5 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffcb4) at guile.c:76
(gdb) q

I'm on a debian Potato (stable!) x86 system.

-Dale

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