Re: [dev-serveez] How about a release?

[stefan]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Andreas Rottmann wrote:

> >> scm_must_free is deprecated.  Use scm_gc_malloc and scm_gc_free instead.
> >
> > Hm.  I waited to appliy these changes until the guile developers finished
> > their gc rewrite and found a API which does not change to often anymore...
> > Do you know about the state of development?
> >
> > Basically we must differentiate 2 cases where the scm_must_*() functions
> > are used in Serveez:
> >
> >  1. free'ing pointers returned by e.g. gh_scm2newstr() -> the macro
> >     scm_c_free()
> >  2. allocating/freeing the smob data structures and pointers inside these
> >     structures
> >
> > Is there a document telling what we need to use (the correct way) in the
> > new guile? I've seen loads of these malloc()/free() functions... quite
> > confusing for a non-guile developer (at least at the first glimpse).
> >
> There is some information about it in the guile 1.7 reference manual
> (info files). Just search for `scm_gc_malloc'.

I just reviewed the documentation files.  An appropriate mail has been
sendt to guile-devel...

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