[plt-dev] Re: [plt] Push #20286: master branch updated

On May 22, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> At Sat, 22 May 2010 06:47:44 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > On May 21, jay at racket-lang.org wrote:
> > > 
> > > src/racket/gc/new_hblk.c
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > --- OLD/src/racket/gc/new_hblk.c
> > > +++ NEW/src/racket/gc/new_hblk.c
> > > @@ -164,7 +164,8 @@ ptr_t GC_build_fl(struct hblk *h, size_t sz, GC_bool 
> > clear, ptr_t list)
> > >     * put p (which is now head of list of objects in *h) as first
> > >     * pointer in the appropriate free list for this size.
> > >     */
> > > -      obj_link(h -> hb_body) = list;
> > > +	  word *tmp = (word *)h->hb_body;
> > > +      obj_link(tmp) = list;
> > >        return ((ptr_t)p);
> > >  }
> > 
> > It's not clear to me what this is trying to do, but this breaks on
> > windows.
> 
> The problem is the variable declaration in the middle of a
> block. I'll fix it.

(Yeah, that was clear -- but why is it needed in the first place?  The
only place I've seen this was due to xform limitations.)

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