Re: Controlling the garbage collector?

[Gary Wong]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 07:22:28PM +0600, Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
> Or is it possible to set up data spaces that are exempt from
> examination by the garbage collector?

Yes.  It sounds like scm_protect_object() is what you're looking for.  I'm
not familiar with the Ada bindings, but in C, you would do something like:

    SCM s;

    ...

    s = some_object_which_must_not_be_GCed;

    scm_protect_object( s );

    ...

You can undo the protection with scm_unprotect_object.  See libguile/gc.c
in guile-core for more details.

Cheers,
Gary.
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  Gary Wong    Consultant, Dependable Distributed Computing, AT&T Shannon Labs
        address@hidden            http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~gary/