Re: [Pika-dev] Guile FFI: resizable vector problem

[Matthew Dempsky]

Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:

> The next thing I ran into: Guile has dropped resizable vectors some
> time ago. A rationale can be found in [0]. The argument seems sound to
> me, so what about Pika -- won't resizable vectors yield the same
> problem wrt to threading? For now, I'll just work around that by
> making scm_set_n_vector_elts() create a new vector.

Pika's FFI will handle resizable vectors and threading fine because
users never get pointers to the vector contents -- they can only do
vector-ref and vector-set! operations on them.

Having scm_set_n_vector_elts create a new vector and copy elements
would be the Right Thing to do for this.

-jivera