[plt-scheme] Trouble embedding scheme on Mac OS X

From: Norbert Zeh (nzeh at cs.dal.ca)
Date: Sat Sep 25 13:43:26 EDT 2004

I'm using v208p1.

Norbert

On 25-Sep-04, at 3:10 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote:

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> At Sat, 25 Sep 2004 02:11:57 -0300, Norbert Zeh wrote:
>> I've figured out a way to avoid the bus error:  Use
>> scheme_set_stack_base to set the stack base.  The documentation 
>> doesn't
>> mention that this is necessary.  Any clue why this may be necessary?
>
> Are you using v208, or something earlier?
>
> Before v208, I'm pretty sure that the conservative GC didn't
> automatically find all static variables in OS X, and that could cause
> MzScheme to crash.
>
> I thought that when we upgraded the GC in v208, the problem would be
> fixed, but I didn't specifically check.
>
> Matthew
>



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