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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: scheme closures: crash during garbage collection
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:49:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1161942572.27538.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87u05s2l1e.fsf@zagadka.de>

Hi,

I'm just now getting around to taking care of this oldie.

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 18:06 +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
> > (See
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-gtk-general/2006-06/msg00013.html
> > if you didn't see the whole description on guile-gtk-general already.)
[...]
>    By using this combination of tracing and reference counting it is
>    possible to break the cycle that is formed by the proxy pointing to
>    the GtkObject and the GtkObject pointing back.

I'm going to look into what it would take to use mark functions, as
guile-gtk does, instead of rolling our GC protection scheme, as Gregory
did[0]. I'll also look into what python does, as they probably have
things right. Then again, I thought I had things right...

[0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-gtk-general/2006-07/msg00056.html

Cheers,

Andy.
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-27  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <64e2f6fe0606081528m4e5f9979yff9b8294ecedf6d2@mail.gmail.com>
2006-06-09 19:54 ` scheme closures: crash during garbage collection Neil Jerram
2006-06-09 21:54   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-06-10  9:40     ` Marius Vollmer
2006-06-12 22:34       ` Neil Jerram
2006-06-12 23:33         ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-06-12 23:45           ` Neil Jerram
2006-07-08 15:06         ` Marius Vollmer
2006-07-12 21:48           ` Neil Jerram
2006-10-27  9:49           ` Andy Wingo [this message]

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