On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Hans Hübner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a good reason why WITH-FOREIGN-STRING allocates the buffer on > the heap instead of using WITH-FOREIGN-OBJECT, which will allocate on > the stack on platforms that support it?
I believe we were worried about big strings and the possibility of overflowing the stack. I suppose we could add an argument to WITH-FOREIGN-STRING and :STRING to force stack allocation. -- Luís Oliveira http://student.dei.uc.pt/~lmoliv/ _______________________________________________ cffi-devel mailing list cffi-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cffi-devel
