On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 6:04 PM Matthew Flatt wrote:
> Just unnecessary.
Great :)
>
It's not common, but that can happen. The GC can recognize and ignore
> pointers that are not to its own space.
This also fits my mental model, but I wanted to make sure I understood the
corner cases.
>
At Fri, 1 Nov 2019 17:15:57 -0400, Thomas Dickerson wrote:
> Is it an error to register things which are not GCable, or just unnecessary?
Just unnecessary.
> Also - are there ever likely to be pointers which could hold memory which
> may or may not be GCable depending on the code path?
> (e.g. a
Great, this is very helpful.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 4:53 PM Matthew Flatt wrote:
> At Fri, 1 Nov 2019 10:34:50 -0700 (PDT), Thomas Dickerson wrote:
> Only pointers to GCable memory --- which tends to be the things passed
> to a Racket function, but more generally corresponds to things that
>
At Fri, 1 Nov 2019 10:34:50 -0700 (PDT), Thomas Dickerson wrote:
> The documentation says:
> "The 3m collector needs to know the address of every local or temporary
> pointer within a function call at any point when a collection can be
> triggered."
>
> A couple questions:
> - Is this "every
Sorry for the double-post, one more question.
The output of `raco ctool --c-mods` has the form:
#ifdef MZ_XFORM
> XFORM_START_SKIP;
> #endif
> static void declare_modules(Scheme_Env *env) {
> static unsigned char data[] = { /* bytes go here */ };
> scheme_register_embedded_load(NUM_BYTES,
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