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> Until GNU Libc 2 is rightfully and justly adopted as the Universal > Standard, perhaps a gh_broken_libc_init() could be implemented which > takes the top-of-stack pointer as an argument. Then it's the > application's responsibility to pass a reasonable value. I don't think people will be able to reliably find the stack base. > Come to think of it, this could be beneficial if the application knows > it won't store SCMs above point x in the call stack. Why scan above a > frame which both initializes and destroys the interpreter? This is begging for trouble. Remember that GC-related bugs are intermittent, and very hard to track down. Okay, this is on the post-1.3 to-do list.