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Re: GUILE's GC - why we struggling to solve already solved problems ? (was Re: finding the top of the stack in linux)


On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 04:56:30PM -0400, Clark McGrew wrote:
> From an application programers point of view, the C api is easy to use
> and the GC is completely non-obtrusive as long as you don't do
> *obviously* stupid things (like putting a SCM in a global variable
> without calling gh_protect_object).

Speaking as some who has made that mistake a few times, I don't think
it's always obvious to people who have never used garbage collection
in C before. GC is a difficult concept when you're used to malloc(),
alloca(), mmap(), etc.

-- 
C. Ray C. aka Christopher Cramer
crayc@pyro.net
http://www.pyro.net/~crayc/

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