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Re: [Q] C-interface and multiple return values

To: scsh@martigny.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [Q] C-interface and multiple return values
From: schaffer@wat.hookup.net
Date: 8 Aug 1996 05:48:50 GMT
Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Reply-to: schaffer@wat.hookup.net
In <4u5igd$d0a@wobbegong.cs.indiana.edu>, jeschke@cs.indiana.edu (Eric Jeschke) 
writes:
> ...
>Is this because Scheme-48 needs to keep track of pointers for garbage
>collection?  Would this be solved by a conservative collector or is there
>some other interesting reason?

Typically, the scheme kernel contains functions to allocate the various data
types in the scheme heap (how else do you think it's done in scheme.  It's
only a question of making this function accessible (include def in the .h
file and provide some documentation).

Hartmann Schaffer


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