[plt-scheme] Re: (ab)using ffi-call to execute assembly

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Mon Jul 13 15:52:37 EDT 2009

On Jul 13, Noel Welsh wrote:
> Update the second:
> 
> This is either a Linux or a 4.2.0.2 problem, as it works for me on
> OS X 4.2.0.5. Probably it is not a problem worth solving. [...]

Perhaps this is due to a need for `scheme_malloc_code'?  (Which is our
wrapper that takes care to mark the memory as executable.)  DrScheme
probably has many more pages marked as executable anyway, which would
make the error less likely.

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