From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: SCM_STRING_CHARS is deprecated. See the manual for alternatives.
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:30:56 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lkpwp0zj.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44DAAEC6.7080007@gnu.org> (Bruce Korb's message of "Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:57:58 -0700")
Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org> writes:
>
> There are also a few magic values stuffed into memory before a
> symbol's characters, but you don't want to know about those. What
> cruft!
That para sounds a bit unnecessary, doesn't it :).
> Note that `SCM_VECTOR_BASE', `SCM_STRING_CHARS' and
> `SCM_SYMBOL_CHARS' return pointers to data within the respective
> object. Care must be taken that the object is not garbage collected
> while that data is still being accessed. This is the same as for a
> smob, *Note Remembering During Operations::.
Not sure if that's true any more either. Is the "remembering"
protection enough now?
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-10 3:57 SCM_STRING_CHARS is deprecated. See the manual for alternatives Bruce Korb
2006-08-10 8:05 ` Neil Jerram
2006-08-11 0:30 ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
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2006-09-16 21:46 Bruce Korb
2006-09-23 10:19 ` Neil Jerram
2006-09-23 17:04 ` Bruce Korb
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