(scm_mode_bits): Use it.
(scm_c_port_for_each): Blocking GC does not seem to work, allocate
a vector normally and fill that instead of consing a list with a
blocked GC.
* strings.h, strings.c: (scm_i_string_chars, scm_i_string_length,
scm_i_string_writable_chars, scm_i_string_stop_writing): New, to
replace SCM_I_STRING_CHARS and SCM_I_STRING_LENGTH. Updated all
uses.
(scm_i_make_string, scm_c_make_string): New, to replace
scm_allocate_string. Updated all uses.
(SCM_STRINGP, SCM_STRING_CHARS, SCM_STRING_UCHARS,
SCM_STRING_LENGTH): Deprecated.
(scm_allocate_string, scm_take_str, scm_take0str, scm_mem2string,
scm_str2string, scm_makfrom0str, scm_makfrom0str_opt):
Discouraged. Replaced all uses with scm_from_locale_string or
similar, as appropriate.
(scm_c_string_length, scm_c_string_ref, scm_c_string_set_x,
scm_c_substring, scm_c_substring_shared, scm_c_substring_copy,
scm_substring_shared, scm_substring_copy): New.
* symbols.c, symbols.h (SCM_SYMBOLP, SCM_SYMBOL_FUNC,
SCM_SET_SYMBOL_FUNC, SCM_SYMBOL_PROPS, SCM_SET_SYMBOL_PROPS,
SCM_SYMBOL_HASH, SCM_SYMBOL_INTERNED_P, scm_mem2symbol,
scm_str2symbol, scm_mem2uninterned_symbol): Discouraged.
(SCM_SYMBOL_LENGTH, SCM_SYMBOL_CHARS, scm_c_symbol2str):
Deprecated.
(SCM_MAKE_SYMBOL_TAG, SCM_SET_SYMBOL_LENGTH, SCM_SET_SYMBOL_CHARS,
SCM_PROP_SLOTS, SCM_SET_PROP_SLOTS): Removed.
(scm_is_symbol, scm_from_locale_symbol, scm_from_locale_symboln):
New, to replace scm_str2symbol and scm_mem2symbol, respectively.
Updated all uses.
(scm_gensym): Generate only the number suffix in the buffer, just
string-append the prefix.
be nested.
(scm_i_thread_put_to_sleep): Call scm_i_leave_guile before locking
admin mutex so that we can be put to sleep by other threads while
blocking on that mutex. Lock all the heap mutex of all threads,
including ourselves.
(scm_i_thread_wake_up): Unlock all threads, including ourselves,
call scm_i_enter_guile.
(scm_thread_mark_stacks): Expect all threads to be suspended.
scm_gc_mallocated, for now.
(scm_init_storage): Initialize it.
* gc-malloc.c (descrease_mtrigger, increase_mtrigger): Use it.
* gc-mark.c (scm_gc_mark_dependencies): Call scm_i_string_mark,
scm_i_stringbuf_mark and scm_i_symbol_mark, as appropriate.
* gc-card.c (scm_i_sweep_card): Call scm_i_string_free,
scm_i_stringbuf_free and scm_i_symbol_free, as appropriate.
(SCM_LOCK_VAL, SCM_UNLOCK_VAL): New constants.
(SCM_LOCK_ARB, SCM_UNLOCK_ARB): Remove, effectively absorbed into
scm_try_arbiter and scm_release_arbiter.
(scm_try_arbiter, scm_release_arbiter): Use FETCH_STORE to get xchg
for speed on i386, otherwise using mutex.
fair mutexes and collecting up material from ...
(Low level thread primitives, Higher level thread procedures, C level
thread interface): ... these nodes.
(SCM_VALIDATE_STRING_COPY): Deprecated. Replaced all uses with
SCM_VALIDATE_STRING plus SCM_I_STRING_CHARS or
scm_to_locale_string, etc.
(SCM_VALIDATE_SUBSTRING_SPEC_COPY): Deprecated. Replaced as
above, plus scm_i_get_substring_spec.
* regex-posix.c, read.c, random.c, ramap.c, print.c, numbers.c,
hash.c, gc.c, gc-card.c, convert.i.c, backtrace.c, strop.c,
strorder.c, strports.c, struct.c, symbols.c, unif.c, ports.c: Use
SCM_I_STRING_CHARS, SCM_I_STRING_UCHARS, and SCM_I_STRING_LENGTH
instead of SCM_STRING_CHARS, SCM_STRING_UCHARS, and
SCM_STRING_LENGTH, respectively. Also, replaced scm_return_first
with more explicit scm_remember_upto_here_1, etc, or introduced
them in the first place.
* socket.c, rw.c, deprecated.h, validate.h
(SCM_VALIDATE_STRING_COPY): Deprecated. Replaced all uses with
SCM_VALIDATE_STRING plus SCM_I_STRING_CHARS or
scm_to_locale_string, etc.
(SCM_VALIDATE_SUBSTRING_SPEC_COPY): Deprecated. Replaced as
above, plus scm_i_get_substring_spec.
