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[PATCH core-updates]: Compile bdw-gc with support for disclaim procedures

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Message #11 received at 49440 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: 49440 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#49440: [PATCH core-updates]: Compile bdw-gc with support
 for disclaim procedures
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:30:18 +0200

Hi Maxime,

Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> skribis:

> Disclaim procedures do not seem to be used in the wild,
> but seem useful for implementing ephemerons in Guile
> (to be investigated), hence this patch.
>
> Guile seems to start building fine when using a bdw-gc packave
> with "--enable-disclaim" added (I'm using (package (inherit ...) ...),
> but that was on master. I'll verify on core-updates, but building
> things will take some time.

I have a slight preference for delaying ‘--enable-disclaim’ until we
have software that actually needs it.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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