Re: static variables with scheme objects

[Paul Jarc]

sig <address@hidden> wrote:
> static SCM global_mutex;
>
> void init() {
>   global_mutex = scm_make_mutex();
> }
>
> but it seems like doing this be dangerous as the garbage
> collector would try to reclaim the object as its not an
> immediate and the only reference is this global variable so
> walking the stack wouldn't find it.

Right.  You can protect it from the garbage collector like this:

global_mutex = scm_permanent_object(scm_make_mutex());


paul