Re: [Chicken-users] memory usage of object

[Alaric Snell-Pym]

On 20 Jun 2007, at 10:04 am, felix winkelmann wrote:
> (##sys#size X) will return the number slots/words in a vector-like
> object, or the number of bytes for a byte-vector like object (i.e.
> a string)
> (It will crash for immediate data).

So I see:

#;3> (##sys#size 'foo)
2
#;4> (##sys#size 1)
Bus error

How many ways are there to crash a Chicken, actually?

(Cue "why did the chicken cross the road" jokes)

It'd be handy to have an eval environment without any ways to crash
it, any access to external system resources, etc for sandboxing code
in :-)

ABS

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