GNU bug report logs - #24884
Segfault on (mkstemp! "XX" 0)

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>

Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 18:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>

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From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
To: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Cc: 24884 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24884: Segfault on (mkstemp! "XX" 0)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 22:33:30 +0100

On Sat 05 Nov 2016 19:16, Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support> writes:

> I was just testing a function, and before I figured out what is
> happening, it is segfaulting on:
> (mkstemp! "XX" 0)
>
> I don't say, I am using it right. It should not segfault.

I agree.  This is a pending topic in Guile.  (The reason, of course:
mutating literal constants is not valid Scheme.  Guile allocates
some constant literals in read-only memory.  Mutating that memory, or
attempting to do so, segfaults, as you have seen.  We should raise an
error instead.)

Andy
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