From: Egil Moeller <redhog@redhog.org>
Subject: out-of-order GC
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 17:36:28 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0212291728430.1884-100000@urd.norna.redhog.org> (raw)
Hi!
I have a problem developing an extension library to guile in C: I have two
types of SMOBs, of which the first one represents a connection, and the
second one a transaction on such a connection. A transaction is created
by sending some data over the connection, and a handle will be returned,
which is then sent back over the connection to close the transaction.
Thus, the transaction-SMOB must contain a reference to the connection-SMOB
that was used to create it. The problem araises if no external reference
exist neither to a connection, nor to a transaction on that connection,
and both of them lost their external referrences before a GC. In this
case, it might happend that the connection-SMOB i first freed, and then
the transaction-SMOB. But the transaction-SMOB-free-routine will now
crash, as it tries to access the connection, which has allready been
deleted. How should I solve this problem? It is sufficient if the
transaction-SMOB-free-routine is notified about that the connection was
previously closed, and thus it is able to not take any action to send the
close-transaction-command (it would be nicer, thought, if one could force
the transaction-SMOB-free-routine to be called _before_ the
connection-SMOB-free-routine).
Regards,
Egil
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next reply other threads:[~2002-12-29 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-29 16:36 Egil Moeller [this message]
2002-12-30 13:36 ` out-of-order GC Greg Troxel
2002-12-30 14:05 ` Egil Moeller
2002-12-31 3:06 ` Matt Hellige
2002-12-31 20:13 ` Neil Jerram
2003-01-01 10:57 ` Egil Moeller
2003-01-01 17:58 ` Neil Jerram
2003-01-01 21:22 ` Marius Vollmer
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