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> From: Shiro Kawai <shiro@xxxxxxxx> > > Given the scheme_value, I read the address of the malloced (or inline) > > string and operate on that. At this point the scheme_value, if I'm > > not otherwise using it, is a dead variable as far as C is concerned. > > Should the scheme value be collected while I'm working on the string, > > the string data will be freed out from under me. > As Per noted, Boehm GC avoids this if configured with "interior > pointer" flag. Ok, but that doesn't help if the data is separately allocated. Or, for that matter, if my pointer is pointed past the end of the string but I'm indexing at a negative offset from it. The whole thing just plays way too fast and loose with C semantics to be acceptable for critical systems. -t