From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Stefan Israelsson Tampe <stefan.itampe@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>, guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Foreign objects facility
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:47:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tx9d1h2v.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGua6m2F-Cp-HYL-tp-2p-wOSBAWx98_Q8PFRQEN+nk_AG=8PQ@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Israelsson Tampe's message of "Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:46:36 +0200")
On Sun 27 Apr 2014 18:46, Stefan Israelsson Tampe <stefan.itampe@gmail.com> writes:
> FYI I need need the gc mark interface for my prolog variables in order
> to hope for garbage collecting of prolog programs, e.g. clean the
> variables bindings in the prolog stack for variables that no longer is
> referenced. It is possible to even skip this if I could probe if a SCM
> variable is unreferenced (but still gc protected)
Whatever we do, this sort of thing will remain supported as long as we
are using the BDW GC, via the BDW GC API. You might look there for your
needs in this case; perhaps they have something that Guile doesn't
expose.
Andy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-28 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-27 13:17 RFC: Foreign objects facility Andy Wingo
2014-04-27 16:00 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-04-27 16:46 ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2014-04-28 17:47 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2014-04-27 17:51 ` Andy Wingo
2014-05-03 4:57 ` Doug Evans
2014-04-28 16:08 ` Andy Wingo
2014-04-29 16:08 ` Doug Evans
2014-04-29 18:27 ` Andy Wingo
2014-04-28 8:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-28 18:05 ` Andy Wingo
2014-04-29 15:56 ` Doug Evans
2014-04-29 18:25 ` Andy Wingo
2014-05-03 5:45 ` Doug Evans
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