GC missed a reference

[Bill Schottstaedt]

Sorry about this less-than-ideal bug report, but maybe this
will make sense to someone.
In the CVS Guile, but not earlier versions (i.e. not 1.6.4 or any before that),
there is a problem with let: if you have a block with successive lets,
and these lets share a local name, you can get "GC missed a
reference":
wrong-type-arg: (- Wrong type argument in position ~A: ~S (1 #<freed cell 0x40b78e80; GC missed a reference>) #f)

The problem goes away if you rename the local variables so that there
are no shared names.  The bad case is basically:
(let ...
  (let ((var val)
        (var1 val1))
    ...)
  (let ((var val2)
        (var1 val3))
    ...)) ; in this body, you can get the GC missed a ref bug
Change the second "var1" to "var2" and the error goes
away. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a simple case of this -- my
"regression" test is more than 42000 lines long, and it's not a
completely repeatable problem even without any changes.  It appears
that the 2nd binding needs to be the result of SCM_RETURN_NEWSMOB to
trigger this problem.


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