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author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2009-09-02 00:07:27 +0200 |
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committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2009-09-02 01:37:37 +0200 |
commit | 5f236208d0d864546e59afa0f5a11c9b3ba14b10 (patch) | |
tree | eed5d9203a2633c8efb85c1b36425eab87574299 /doc/ref/libguile-concepts.texi | |
parent | f0eb5ae6c173aed35965b0561897fda1d8ff0db1 (diff) | |
parent | d7e7a02a6251c8ed4f76933d9d30baeee3f599c0 (diff) | |
download | guile-bdw-gc-static-alloc.tar.gz |
Merge branch 'boehm-demers-weiser-gc' into bdw-gc-static-allocbdw-gc-static-alloc
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acinclude.m4
libguile/strings.c
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diff --git a/doc/ref/libguile-concepts.texi b/doc/ref/libguile-concepts.texi index 20c0f72ca..15d54f531 100644 --- a/doc/ref/libguile-concepts.texi +++ b/doc/ref/libguile-concepts.texi @@ -153,8 +153,8 @@ that have been added to Guile by third-party libraries. Also, computing with @code{SCM} is not necessarily inefficient. Small integers will be encoded directly in the @code{SCM} value, for example, -and do not need any additional memory on the heap. See @ref{Data -Representation} to find out the details. +and do not need any additional memory on the heap. See @ref{The +Libguile Runtime Environment} to find out the details. Some special @code{SCM} values are available to C code without needing to convert them from C values: @@ -170,8 +170,8 @@ In addition to @code{SCM}, Guile also defines the related type @code{scm_t_bits}. This is an unsigned integral type of sufficient size to hold all information that is directly contained in a @code{SCM} value. The @code{scm_t_bits} type is used internally by -Guile to do all the bit twiddling explained in @ref{Data -Representation}, but you will encounter it occasionally in low-level +Guile to do all the bit twiddling explained in @ref{The Libguile +Runtime Environment}, but you will encounter it occasionally in low-level user code as well. @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ As explained above, the @code{SCM} type can represent all Scheme values. Some values fit entirely into a @code{SCM} value (such as small integers), but other values require additional storage in the heap (such as strings and vectors). This additional storage is managed -automatically by Guile. You don't need to explicitely deallocate it +automatically by Guile. You don't need to explicitly deallocate it when a @code{SCM} value is no longer used. Two things must be guaranteed so that Guile is able to manage the |