[gambit-list] FFI and scheme-object

Alex Queiroz asandroq at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 07:25:51 EDT 2011


Hallo,

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Diogo F. S. Ramos <diogofsr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was looking around the examples from the distribution and I found
> (##still-copy), which made my code work, but I don't know why, and I
> couldn't find any mention of it inside the manual.
>

     Gambit uses a copying garbage collector, and therefore move
objects in memory. ##STILL-COPY copies the object to a memory location
from where it won't be moved again. So I guess a garbage collection is
happening after the call to MAKE_BOOK.

-- 
-alex
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