`scm_gc_mark', but doesn't mark the argument itself. defined
using an arrangement similar to that in eval.c: `scm_gc_mark' and
`scm_gc_mark_dependencies' are derived from the same "template"
by ugly preprocessor magic.
* gc.h: added prototype for `scm_gc_mark_dependencies'.
* init.c (scm_init_guile_1): call the renamed
`scm_init_guardians'.
* guardians.h: changed prototypes for `scm_make_guardian' and
`scm_init_guardians'.
* guardians.c (guardian_t): added new fields `greedy_p' and
`listed_p'.
(GUARDIAN_P): predicate that says whether its argument is a
guardian.
(GUARDIAN_GREEDY_P, GUARDIAN_LISTED_P): new predicates.
(greedy_guardians, sharing_guardians): new variables. hold the
greedy and sharing live guardian lists, respectively.
(first_live_guardian, current_link_field): removed.
(greedily_guarded_prop): new variable. holds the "is greedily
guarded" object property.
(self_centered_zombies): new variable. stores guarded objects
that are parts of cycles.
(add_to_live_list): new function, introduced to decouple marking a
guardian and adding it to the live list.
(guardian_mark): call `add_to_live_list'.
(guardian_print): print whether the guardian is greedy or not.
also change "live" and "zombie" to "reachable" and "unreachable"
respectively, to be less confusing.
(scm_guard): if the guardian is greedy, test whether the object is
already greedily marked. throw an error if so.
(scm_get_one_zombie): if the guardian is greedy, remove the
"greedily guarded" property from the object.
(scm_make_guardian): add a new optional boolean argument which
says whether the guardian is greedy or sharing.
(guardian_gc_init): init the new live lists.
(mark_dependencies): new function.
(mark_and_zombify): new function.
(guardian_zombify): reworked to support the new guardian
semantics. move some logic to `mark_dependencies' and
`mark_and_zombify'.
(whine_about_self_centered_zombies): new function. installed in
the `after-gc-hook' to complain about guarded objects which are
parts of cycles.
(scm_init_guardians): init the new stuff. renamed from
`scm_init_guardian'.
scm_guardian_gc_init, scm_guardian_zombify, scm_guard,
scm_get_one_zombie, scm_init_guardian): This is an implementation
of guardians as described in R. Kent Dybvig, Carl Bruggeman, and
David Eby (1993) "Guardians in a Generation-Based Garbage
Collector" ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design
and Implementation, June 1993 ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu
/pub/scheme-repository/doc/pubs/guardians.ps.gz
Author: Michael N. Livshin.
