Re: Problem with smobs

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

"Mikael Djurfeldt" <address@hidden> writes:

> I wouldn't call this a bug and wouldn't call it undocumented.  The
> garbage collector only guarantees that it doesn't free things which
> you can reference.  It doesn't guarantee whether to or when to free
> things which lack a reference.

Well, I agree, but still, the fact that a reference is unwillingly held
for an undefined amount of time qualifies as a leak IMO.  ;-)

This particular leak should be fixed in 1.8:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2005-11/msg00016.html .

Thanks,
Ludovic.