Re: Guile 64-bit Windows support, redux

"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:44:14 +0200

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Mike Gran <[email protected]> writes:

> So I'm still plugging away at this Guile on Windows stuff.

Thank you for keeping us up to date!

> Guile's use of BDW GC is complicated.  It is not the
> "just replace malloc with GC_MALLOC" described
> in the BDW GC docs.

Are you aware of the work done on whippet to replace that for Guile 4?

Do you see aspects that could be a problem for Lilypond? From what I
read on IRC, there’ll likely be changes to SMOBs. Also there are notes
by Wingo on SMOBs and malloc, maybe these could give pointers:
https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/03/04/whippet-lab-notebook-on-untagged-mallocs

And they show that you’re not the only one struggling with malloc:
"these functions are just truly gnarly".

> I haven't pushed anything back to the main Guile git repo 
> savannah yet, because I don't want y'all to see me flailing around.

Thank you for keeping up the work!

Best wishes,
Arne
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