Re: [Chicken-users] set-finalizer! and disable-interrupts

[felix winkelmann]

On 3/2/07, Hans Bulfone <address@hidden> wrote:
> hi,
>
> the documentation of set-finalizer! contains:
>
> "Note that the finalizer will not be called when interrupts are disabled."
>
> does this mean that when an object with a finalizer happens to be
> garbage-collected while some code in a unit with disabled interrupts
> is running
> (a) the finalizer is not invoked at all or
> (b) the invokation is deferred until interrupts are enabled again?

(b)

> if (a) then i can't really depend on a finalizer being called, correct?
>
> if (b) then i'd change "when" to "while" in the documentation.

Done. Thanks.


cheers,
felix