rtl, stack pointers, segmented stacks, foo

2012-06-28 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, The RTL branch tries hard to fix stack frame sizes, in order to avoid moving around a stack pointer and causing numerous overflow checks. I think it's sufficient though to simply design procedures to have a mostly fixed-size stack frame, but to update a top-of-the-stack pointer when entering

Preparing for 2.0.6

2012-06-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Still hesitant between writing a native code back-end for IA64 and making Guile multiboot-compliant? Hesitate no more! Time has come for 2.0.6, so let’s squash bugs! One thing I’d like to get in by then is the SRFI-9 “functional record setters”. Mark: what’s your take on this?

Re: Preparing for 2.0.6

2012-06-28 Thread Ian Price
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Any other ideas? Yes, could you or Andy look at my patch for chunked encoding? I first pointed issue this out round about last September, and it would be nice to finally have support for it in guile proper. I'm happy with the overall design, but it may

Re: Preparing for 2.0.6

2012-06-28 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 28 Jun 2012 22:05, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Time has come for 2.0.6, so let’s squash bugs! Yay! Andy: would you like to take care of NEWS? :-) Sure :) I’ll be mostly away from July 9th for some time, so I could push the tarball by then, or otherwise during the GHM.

Re: Preparing for 2.0.6

2012-06-28 Thread Noah Lavine
I think bug 10623 is fixed in stable-2.0, but I don't know how to close it in the tracker. Thanks, Noah On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org wrote: Hello! Still hesitant between writing a native code back-end for IA64 and making Guile multiboot-compliant?  Hesitate

Re: Preparing for 2.0.6

2012-06-28 Thread Noah Lavine
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Nala Ginrut nalagin...@gmail.com wrote: @Noah: Could you apply the patch to fix ecmascript? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2012-05/msg1.html I think that's already done! Do you not see it in your tree? Noah

Re: Preparing for 2.0.6

2012-06-28 Thread Nala Ginrut
For stable-2.0? I'm tracing wip-rtl these days, and it failed: ---error msg--- GNU Guile 2.1.0.322-e765d Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'. This program is free software, and you are