Stelian Ionescu <stelian.ionescu-z...@poste.it> writes: > Yes. Given that SBCL has a conservative GC on x86 and x86_64 you have no > guarantee that a finalizer will ever be executed. Also, I'm not sure how > it would interact with the fact that the entire array(contents and > header) is allocated in foreign memory. It's better not to risk and if > some day we'll be sure that it's unnecessary on all implementations, we > could safely deprecate free-static-vector and use finalizers.
It would certainly be very nice to have a portable way of letting the GC dispose of garbage but stop it from moving buffers around. Allegro already supports this just fine, for example. _______________________________________________ cffi-devel mailing list cffi-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cffi-devel
