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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 07 Jan 2004 17:01:17 -0500
I gather that your current inclination is to preserve the requirement
that GC may only take place during calls to specially marked API
functions. Thus, collection must wait until all active C calls have
called a marked API function. Is that correct?
Yes. An exception, which should be mentioned in the SRFI and
may affect your situation, is that systems using a conservative
GC could GC at any time.
However, I would like to be able to use Scheme as an extension
language for existing C programs that use multiple system threads, and
I would like SRFI-50 to provide what I need to implement the C/Scheme
glue for this.
To be useful in such a situation there would need to be a way to exit
and then re-enter the implicit critical section surrounding C calls.
-Richard Kelsey