On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Mark H Weaver wrote:
Anyway, I doubt that imposing such a limitation would adequately solve
the problem here of chunked references in Racket 8, because I suspect
that Racket 8 could split store references at arbitrary points in the
string. I doubt that we can safely assume that the hash component of
store references will be stored contiguously in *.zo files.
Mark and everyone,
I wanted to spin off a subthread on guix-devel, to make you aware of
another problem that we've run into with reference in .zo getting mangled:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47180
Best,
Jack