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Re: guile bugs
- To: Greg Badros <gjb AT cs.washington dot edu>
- Subject: Re: guile bugs
- From: Martin Baulig <martin AT home-of-linux dot org>
- Date: 16 Sep 1999 17:15:29 +0200
- Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb AT red-bean dot com>, Jay Belanger <jay AT vh213601.truman dot edu>, scwm-discuss AT scwm.mit dot edu, guile AT sourceware.cygnus dot com, martin AT home-of-linux dot org
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Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:
> 2) SCM should not be a long, but instead be a pointer to undefined
> struct as we discussed before. This would prevent misuse of an integer
> as a Scheme value.
How well does this behave on systems which align all pointers on word
boundaries; I mean I'm a bit worried that not every integer number may also
be a valid pointer on every system; even if you don't attempt to dereference
that pointer.
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