Re: rtl metadata musings

[Andy Wingo]

Hi,

On Sun 19 May 2013 23:52, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> I guess literal strings would go out as per ‘SCM_IMMUTABLE_STRING’
> (which needs relocation), right?

Yep.  Right now the stringbuf goes into read-only memory, but the string
itself goes in writable memory as it needs its link to the stringbuf
fixed up (relocated) at runtime.

> Perhaps the .guile.docstr section could eventually be used to contain
> stexi, but that seems to already fit into the plan anyway.

That can happen already, but I think if we do texinfo we should
serialize the string as texinfo -- that way no relocs are needed if
docstrings aren't used, because if we use the .docstr string table, it's
just an offset into the image of a NUL-terminated UTF-8 byte sequence.
(I suppose we should be careful about embedded NUL characters; perhaps
we should use some other format for the string tables.)

Andy
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