Re: [Chicken-janitors] #975: Segmentation fault when accessing/setting moderately large SRFI-4 vectors

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#975: Segmentation fault when accessing/setting moderately large SRFI-4 vectors
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  Reporter:  iraikov   |       Owner:        
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  closed
  Priority:  critical  |   Milestone:  4.9.0 
 Component:  compiler  |     Version:  4.8.x 
Resolution:  invalid   |    Keywords:        
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Changes (by felix):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => invalid


Comment:

 Ivan,

 No, chicken does not rely on TCO from the C compiler (that's the whole
 point of using cheney-on-the-mta). Chicken will also not magically make
 non-tail-recursive code tail-recursive:

 {{{
 --- ../srfi-4-utils-test.scm~   2013-02-15 16:00:54.953867621 +0100
 +++ ../srfi-4-utils-test.scm    2013-02-15 16:07:40.085861499 +0100
 @@ -46,8 +46,9 @@
                (vblit! a i q b k)
                (if (< j r)
                    (vblit! a j r b k))))
 +      )
        b
 -      ))
 +      )
    )
 }}}

 I promise not to tell anybody about this.

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/975#comment:4>
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