Vijay Marupudi schreef op zo 08-08-2021 om 23:02 [-0500]:
> Thank you for your responses Taylan and Maxime!
> 
> My initial reaction to the concern about multithreaded code is similar
> to Taylan. I'm not sure if Guile has multithreading concepts built into
> the compiler. If so, one can only check the length again after a mutex.
> 
> Appreciate the malloc, realloc, and free FFI solution. Ideally I
> wouldn't have to do that, but it does work. I have to manually free it
> though.

You can avoid explicit free by using GC_MALLOC_ATOMIC and GC_REALLOC from
bdw-gc (the C library Guile uses for garbage collection) instead of malloc
and realloc, see <https://hboehm.info/gc/gcinterface.html>.

Greetings,
Maxme.