Re: [Chicken-users] Some allocation and object-passing tests

[felix]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:53:09 +0000, Category 5 <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> Felix Winkelmann <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > With these changes, your test-code works fine on my machine.
>
> Ah!  My problem was in my (lack of) understanding of how C_gc_protect
> works.  Now it makes more sense, and with your changes the test code
> (original and modified versions) also runs fine for me, both in the
> gc-protect and alloc-in-heap cases.

Phew!

> Unfortunately, in my real code, the dispatcher() function is opaque -
> it's part of foreign library code that I'm trying to create bindings
> for.  So I can't add C_gc_protect calls inside it.  Are there any
> options left except for static memory or malloc?

Hm. I'll find something. The problem is that C_gc_protect protects
variables pointing to values from GC, not the values themselves.

> Also, any idea why anything I compile with -O1 or -O2 on this platform
> immediately dumps core on execution?  =)

That's NetBSD on Sparc64, right?


cheers,
felix