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Re: broken GC
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Thomas Bushnell, BSG |
Subject: |
Re: broken GC |
Date: |
05 Oct 2001 14:28:03 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
> Frankly, I tend to think that no matter what, if you're going to write
> C code that plays nice with Guile, you're going to have to follow some
> rules. As long as those rules are *well documented*, then I don't
> think it's such a big deal. In fact, I wonder if a guile with a
> precise GC and *really* good docs for how deal with it might not be
> easier than a guile with a conservative GC and weaker docs.
It matters a great deal about what the rules are, not just that they
are well documented.
Emacs has perfectly clear rules for this, but it has proven to be
*very* difficult to get C code correct in marking local variables for
the garbage collector, and is a persistent source of very hard to
track bugs.
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