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Re: Outline for Guile Generational GC


Klaus Schilling wrote:  { regarding calling scm_make_instance to allocate smob
storage }

> That's totally unacceptable, because many libraries require particular routines
> to set up their data types. Just allocating the size doesn't cut it at all.
>

I meant, but forgot to say, that the caller can extract the smob data area from
the SCM header andproceed to initalize it as before.

Dale.