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From: "Hans Åberg" <haberg-1@telia.com>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com>
Cc: Isaac Jurado <diptongo@gmail.com>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C calling Scheme and garbage collection
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 14:51:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A8C7B463-2C3E-4AED-A1B9-651F5B6B5C83@telia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rmia7e2yfev.fsf@s1.lexort.com>


> On 27 Jun 2019, at 21:52, Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:
> 
> I have been down this path before, with guile and with lua.  Basically,
> if C (or non-scheme) has a pointer to a scheme object, then you need to
> hold a logical reference for it and protect the scheme object, and when
> the C pointer is dropped decrease the refcnt.
> 
> I am unclear on the details of how you have a ref that gc is made aware
> of.

If one allocates with the underlying Boehm GC, is the SCM object kept alive?




  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-30 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-27 16:38 C calling Scheme and garbage collection Isaac Jurado
2019-06-27 19:52 ` Greg Troxel
2019-06-28 11:07   ` Isaac Jurado
2019-06-29 17:44     ` Greg Troxel
2019-06-30 12:17       ` David Pirotte
2019-06-30 20:05       ` Isaac Jurado
2019-06-30 12:51   ` Hans Åberg [this message]
2019-07-01  1:26 ` Mark H Weaver

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