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diff --git a/ghc/rts/Stable.c b/ghc/rts/Stable.c
index e9c6181..30a603a 100644
--- a/ghc/rts/Stable.c
+++ b/ghc/rts/Stable.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * $Id: Stable.c,v 1.24 2003/01/28 17:05:43 simonmar Exp $
+ * $Id: Stable.c,v 1.26 2003/06/24 13:45:49 stolz Exp $
  *
  * (c) The GHC Team, 1998-2002
  *
@@ -73,21 +73,6 @@
   There may be additional functions on the C side to allow evaluation,
   application, etc of a stable pointer.
 
-  When Haskell calls C, it normally just passes over primitive integers,
-  floats, bools, strings, etc.  This doesn't cause any problems at all
-  for garbage collection because the act of passing them makes a copy
-  from the heap, stack or wherever they are onto the C-world stack.
-  However, if we were to pass a heap object such as a (Haskell) @String@
-  and a garbage collection occured before we finished using it, we'd run
-  into problems since the heap object might have been moved or even
-  deleted.
-
-  So, if a C call is able to cause a garbage collection or we want to
-  store a pointer to a heap object between C calls, we must be careful
-  when passing heap objects. Our solution is to keep a table of all
-  objects we've given to the C-world and to make sure that the garbage
-  collector collects these objects --- updating the table as required to
-  make sure we can still find the object.
 */
 
 snEntry *stable_ptr_table = NULL;
@@ -258,8 +243,8 @@ enlargeStablePtrTable(void)
   if (SPT_size == 0) {
     // 1st time
     SPT_size = INIT_SPT_SIZE;
-    stable_ptr_table = stgMallocWords(SPT_size * sizeof(snEntry), 
-				      "initStablePtrTable");
+    stable_ptr_table = stgMallocBytes(SPT_size * sizeof(snEntry), 
+				      "enlargeStablePtrTable");
     
     /* we don't use index 0 in the stable name table, because that
      * would conflict with the hash table lookup operations which
@@ -272,9 +257,10 @@ enlargeStablePtrTable(void)
     // 2nd and subsequent times
     SPT_size *= 2;
     stable_ptr_table = 
-      stgReallocWords(stable_ptr_table, SPT_size * sizeof(snEntry),
+      stgReallocBytes(stable_ptr_table, 
+		      SPT_size * sizeof(snEntry),
 		      "enlargeStablePtrTable");
-    
+
     initFreeList(stable_ptr_table + old_SPT_size, old_SPT_size, NULL);
   }
 }