[racket] Trouble with C->Racket callbacks passing pointers to arrays

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 21 08:51:42 EDT 2012

At Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:50:15 +0400, Dmitry Pavlov wrote:
> As a general inquiry, what are the rules for GC about
> collecting malloc-ed objects? Can I be sure that it does
> not collect my vector while the C call or callback who uses
> it is still executing?

Yes, that's an important guarantee that I will add to the
documentation: arguments in a foreign-function call remain reachable
until the foreign function returns.


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