Re: Do we trust the man on the GC trigger?

[Marius Vollmer]

Miroslav Silovic <address@hidden> writes:

> Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > > One could think of storing some additional data in the header of each
> > > malloc'ed block - that's probably the reason for your WHAT argument.  
> > > But:  why would scm_free then have to provide the size argument?  This
> > > could be stored in such a header as well.
> > 
> > Good point!  I wasn't thinking of scm_malloc necessarily keeping a
> > header around, and thought that the caller could in most cases easily
> > pass a valid SIZE value.  But, when we only make use of WHAT and SIZE
> > during debugging, we could just as well make scm_malloc allocate an
> > extra header, with SIZE and WHAT in it.
> 
> Well, since you're already managing the heap at that point, it would
> make sense to put a specific malloc implementation into Guile. Then
> the malloc implementation itself will know how much is allocated, and
> you can get that information.

Yep.


I hope to collect all the nice things that have been discussed in the
next days so that they don't get lost...