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Re: Guile-C interfacing and defating garbage collection

Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> writes:

> Obviously, the procedure won't be garbage collected if it is bound to a
> variable name which is not redefined between stages 1 and 3, but is there any
> way to achieve the same effect, without polluting the namespace, under the
> control of the C library code?

Yes:

SCM scm_protect_object (SCM obj)
SCM scm_unprotect_object (SCM obj)
SCM scm_permanent_object (SCM obj)

All three returns obj itself.

/mdj