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Re: GC safety and return values

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    > From: Jim Blandy <jimb@xxxxxxxxxx>


    >   Another issue is that, if a collection could occur at any time, the
    >   values returned by macros like SCHEME_EXTRACT_VALUE_POINTER and
    >   EXTRACT_STRING can't be trusted long enough to be useful.  This can
    >   be solved in various ways; one idea is sketched in:

    >     http://sources.redhat.com/ml/guile/1999-01/msg00093.html


That (having a distinct free function and leaving sharing unspecified)
is a better idea than SCHEME_ALLOCATE_COPY_OF_* (and
SCHEME_EXTRACT_*).   It can be very efficient on systems where sharing
is easy.


-t