Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix list->queue data corruption issue

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> When run with paranoid CHICKEN, it tells us nicely where it's going
> wrong: the list->queue procedure uses the low-level structure constructor
> ##sys#make-structure with 3 arguments: the structure type, the list and
> the list tail.  Unfortunately, make-queue calls ##sys#make-structure
> with 4 arguments: the structure type, the list, the list tail and the
> queue's length.  

Insert rant here about the use of unsafe procedures from Scheme code
for the sake of tiny and probably imaginary efficiency improvements.
We SHOULD NOT do this.  Indeed, it would be a Good Thing to have
some code that checks for calls on unsafe procedures and reports them
unless a comment is present saying that someone has verified that
this unsafe call is required.

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