diff --git a/include/cyclone/runtime.h b/include/cyclone/runtime.h
index 68152e63..aee80aee 100644
--- a/include/cyclone/runtime.h
+++ b/include/cyclone/runtime.h
@@ -401,7 +401,15 @@ extern const object primitive_Cyc_91display;
 extern const object primitive_call_95cc;
 /* -------------------------------------------- */
 
-/* Globals that are needed by the runtime */
+/** Globals that are needed by the runtime 
+ *  What's going on here is the globals are defined by a module, but
+ *  are also used by the runtime. At least for now, these macros are
+ *  used to point everybody to the objects, which are used by both
+ *  those libraries and this module.
+ *
+ *  The assumption for now is that a program that does not include
+ *  the necessary libray would never use the corresponding function.
+ */
 extern object Cyc_glo_eval;
 extern object Cyc_glo_eval_from_c;
 extern object Cyc_glo_call_cc;
diff --git a/runtime.c b/runtime.c
index 338b5366..191f3c64 100644
--- a/runtime.c
+++ b/runtime.c
@@ -2397,6 +2397,15 @@ object apply(void *data, object cont, object func, object args){
     case closure0_tag:
     case closure1_tag:
     case closureN_tag:
+      if (func == Cyc_glo_call_cc) {
+        make_cons(c, cont, args);
+//Cyc_display(args, stderr);
+//        args = &c;
+//Cyc_display(&c, stderr);
+        count = Cyc_length(data, args);
+//        Cyc_check_num_args(data, "<procedure>", ((closure)func)->num_args, args);
+        dispatch(data, obj_obj2int(count), ((closure)func)->fn, func, cont, args);
+      }
       count = Cyc_length(data, args);
       // TODO: validate number of args provided:
       Cyc_check_num_args(data, "<procedure>", ((closure)func)->num_args, args); // TODO: could be more efficient, eg: cyc_length(args) is called twice.