Re: Emacs and Gnome Canvas

[Stefan Monnier]

>> But GC, too, might need to be examined for possible
>> incompatibilities with C++ memory management.
> C++ memory management requirements are no special compared against to an
> embedded Python interpreter or an image rendering library, for
> instance. If Emacs' garbage collector doesn't walk into the space that
> does not belong to it, there should be no problem as long as the C++
> code does not store Emacs objects.

Indeed, I do not forsee any particular problem on the malloc side,
personally (especially since when we use SYSTEM_MALLOC).
We could bump into some surprises on the unexec side, but that
shouldn't be a major obstacle either.


        Stefan