Re: doco scm_remember_upto_1

[Rob Browning]

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> In the "Type checking" node of the manual showing the clear_image
> example smob code, should that function have an scm_remember_upto_1
> just before returning, in order to keep image_smob visible to a
> garbage collect that might run in another thread?

(I'm looking at the 1.6 docs)

Marius may need to comment here, but I was under the impression that
at the moment we haven't been trying to write all the code to
accomodate a C-side preemptive GC.  This means that you don't need a
"remember" if there are no intervening calls (usually just scheme
calls) that could cause a GC.

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