Re: GC and simple smobs??

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 04/07/2022 à 14:52, David Kastrup a écrit :
> Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:
>
> > Le 17/06/2022 à 23:20, Jean Abou Samra a écrit :
> > > Once again, the more I try to understand how GC works at
> > > the C++ level, the more I get lost.
> >
> > OK, as I said elsewhere, I think we really need documentation for
> > these things. I'm proposing some text for the CG in
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/1450
> >
> > This is incomplete, but I think it should already help a lot.
> I suppose you've seen the comments in lily/include/smobs.hh and
> lily/include/small-smobs.hh ?  I know it's kind of unusual to expect
> useful information from source file comments, but those may have been
> phrased a bit more diligently than average.
>
> While the CG should certainly not be quiet here, those comments may at
> least be a reasonable starting point.


Yup, I know about them, and they were already helpful for me.
They are focused on the smob infrastructure though. They tell
nothing about marking local variables, for example.