[plt-scheme] FFI: callbacks

On Apr  2, Ivan Boulanov wrote:
> I still have trouble with passing callback procedures from Scheme to
> C. The problem is when I pass a Scheme procedure as callback to a C
> dynamic library and then store it to reuse somwhere later, I
> accidentally get a memory access error. It seems to me that the
> callback procedure gets collected straight away the GC is called.

The callback procedure needs to be held in Scheme, to avoid GCing it.


> So, I think it is a fault of MzScheme FFI library.

When a Scheme function is sent to C code, there is no way to know if
the C code will hold on to it or not, so you need to do that when
needed.

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