On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:01 PM, <joerg-cyril.hoe...@t-systems.com> wrote: > The issue with callbacks in CFFI is IMHO one of proper resource deallocation. > No one AFAIK has devised a KISS-style lambda callback creation *AND > DEALLOCATION* protocol. The reason why deallocation is important is that > every lambda callback needs dynamic creation of what the CLISP libffi and GCC > call a trampoline. The Lisp system cannot itself determine when the callback > trampoline is not needed anymore, so the application MUST tell it.
<http://www.clisp.org/impnotes/dffi.html#dffi-callback-mem> suggests that the trampolines for anonymous foreign callbacks are simply leaked. Is that an accurate interpretation? -- Luís Oliveira http://kerno.org/~luis/ _______________________________________________ Cffi-devel mailing list Cffi-devel@common-lisp.net http://mailman.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cffi-devel
