Re: [Chicken-users] valgrind

[Alex Queiroz]

Hallo,

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Jörg F. Wittenberger
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> The pattern is to allocate some space on the stack, fill stuff in,
> eventually jump to the continuation.  GC will only happen during the
> jump, not within the time between allocation and assignment of initial
> values.  (Beware: It's my reading of source!)
>

As I remember, at every entry point of the generated C functions there
is a test for the height of the C stack so far. If the size (height *
sizeof(C_word)) is bigger than the current nursery size, a GC occurs.
At every other point alloca is supposed to succeed.

-- 
-alex
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