Subject: Re: bug#19366: Guile
From: Andy Wingo <[email-masked]>
To: Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>, Joshua Rogers <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:22:39 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Closing bug.  Joshua any reports of running ASAN on Guile 2.0.11 or
2.1.3 are very welcome; note that we switched to the BDW garbage
collector in the meantime; I don't know if there are best practices for
ASAN and BDW-GC.  See e.g.:

  https://lists.opendylan.org/pipermail/bdwgc/2016-January/006136.html

Regards,

Andy

On Sun 14 Dec 2014 16:44, Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]> writes:

> Joshua Rogers <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> On 14/12/14 02:38, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> However, Guile 1.8 is no longer maintained.
>>>
>>> You could try running Asan on Guile 2.0, which has been the stable
>>> series for a number of years.  Guile 2.0 uses the BDW GC (aka. libgc).
>>> It may similarly raise false positives, but since libgc is widely used,
>>> you might be able find feedback from people who have tried using Asan
>>> with it.
>> Hm, okay. 1.8 is the current version in the Ubuntu repo's, just fyi.
>
> Ubuntu has had Guile 2.0 since Precise 12.04 LTS, but it has a different
> package name: "guile-2.0".
>
>      Regards,
>        Mark