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Typo correction:
> From: Tom Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
> In order to preserve the invariant in the face of C's assignment
> operator, at least all GC_PROTECT_GLOBAL locations and all GC_PROTECT
> automatic variables must be, whenever such an assignment is possible,
^
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"in the frame of the function currently executing"
> the same color. Unless the draft is modified to prohibit assignments
> of the form `x = *z' where `z' is a `scheme_value *' that may point to
> a GCPROtected automatic in some caller's frame -- then _all_
^
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(hence the
contrast with
"_all_")
> GCPROtected locations must be of the same GC color whenever a foreign
> function is executing code between GC points.
>
-t