Re: rogue pointer error

Aleksandar Bakic (bakicale@cps.msu.edu)
Fri, 5 Sep 1997 13:36:31 -0400 (EDT)

I will check again, but I think this error started occuring when I
replaced my GUILE installation with a more-up-to-date one (that is, I
think I haven't changed any code, especially something like what you
mention below). I can't tell more than this at this point.

Aleksandar

>
> Aleksandar Bakic <bakicale@cps.msu.edu> writes:
>
> > What does this mean?
> >
> > ERROR: In procedure heap:
> > ERROR: rogue pointer in
> > ABORT: (misc-error)
>
> :)
>
> It should be "rogue pointer in heap", but has been shifted around due
> to misuse of the arguments of the error reporting routine.
>
> It means that there is a pointer in the heap which points out of the
> heap. This is usually due a bug in user C code which introduces a
> non-scheme value in th car or the cdr of a lisp cell, but it could of
> course be a Guile bug, so please keep us informed.
>
> /mdj
> 

-- 
Aleksandar Bakic, Comp.Sci. graduate student at Michigan State University
e-mail: bakicale@cps.msu.edu