Subject: bug#20209: GUILE 2.0.11: crash in set_port_filename_x for bytevector ports

From: Andy Wingo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 20:01:15 +0200

On Thu 23 Jun 2016 18:59, David Kastrup <[email-masked]> writes:

> I don't see anything protecting sym_big or sym_little (more accurately,
> 'big or 'little which are non-immediate SCM values) from collection
> which would make sym_big and sym_little useless for comparison.
>
> I'm assuming that not the whole bss segment is getting scanned by
> BoehmGC.

The whole bss segment is scanned by the GC :)  See the third paragraph
here.

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/Garbage-Collection.html#Garbage-Collection

This section applies to 2.0 as well.

Andy