[plt-scheme] Binding C-Structs Containing Fixed-Size Arrays with the FFI

On Jan 26, Henk Boom wrote:
> 2009/1/26 Jakub Piotr C?apa <jpc-ml at zenburn.net>:
> > You may want to check these threads:
> >
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.plt/12987
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.plt/28412/focus=28509
> > http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2007-March/016671.html
> 
> Thank you. I've taken a look, and come up with a solution, but I'm
> not sure if it's correct.

It looks fine, and better than the previous solution, I think.


> Specifically, I don't know how the garbage collector will interact
> with it: will the the cvector created by make-cvector* properly
> "own" the buffer it references?

At the scheme side -- as long as you're doing the allocations -- there
shouldn't be any problems since it's all handeled transparently by the
GC.  But in general, one good property of a moving GC is that memory
bugs pop up fast: just run `collect-garbage' in random places and see
if it doesn't crash.

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