Re: GC-safety for non-objects

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * In message <159...@ho...>
> * On the subject of "Re: GC-safety for non-objects"
> * Sent on Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:26:24 +0100 (CET)
> * Honorable Bruno Haible <ha...@il...> writes:
>
> Sam writes:
> > array.d:bit_up() uses "uintL* dimptr" to point to a field in Iarray.
> > this Iarray may be moved during GC.
> > this would invalidate dimptr, right?
> 
> Right. But bit_up() should not trigger a GC. When all preparations are
> done it calls bit_op() which doesn't trigger a GC either. Therefore
> dimptr doesn't present a problem.

so it IS a problem!!!
dimptr is used in line 1742 _after_ allocate_bit_vector() and
allocate_iarray()!

I guess I should fix that....

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