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Re: scm_remember_upto_here_* obsolete?


From: Andy Wingo
Subject: Re: scm_remember_upto_here_* obsolete?
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:59:32 +0200
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Heya BT,

On Fri 27 May 2011 03:42, BT Templeton <address@hidden> writes:

> Are the scm_remember_upto_here_* functions useful now that Guile uses
> BDW-GC?

Yes they are.  If you have a pointer to a field of an object with a
destructor, and GCC kills the reference to the object, it could be
collected.

Actually we should switch our remember_upto_foo stuff to use the libgc
variant, GC_reachable_here.

Andy
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