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On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 11:16:57AM -0500, Daniel Burrows was heard to say: > Hi. I'm using Guile in a C program. I've been having mysterious segfaults > recently that seemed to be occuring in the garbage collector. I think that I've > finally worked out what the problem is; I had a heap-allocated variable that > contained a char* pointer which I wanted to return to Scheme; to do so, I > did: > > return gh_str02scm( data->string ); > > With this code, my program would periodically segfault. When I changed this > line to: > > return gh_str02scm( strdup( data->string ) ); > Ick. The problem _didn't_ go away, it just looked like it did. :-) So now I'm completely confused. Are there any other things that could possibly be going wrong? Daniel -- Fate always wins...at least, when people stick to the rules. -- Terry Pratchett, _Interesting Times_