Re: GC ??

[Stephen Compall]

Matthias Koeppe <address@hidden> writes:

> The garbage collector only scans the Scheme heap and the C/Scheme
> stack, but neither the global C data nor the C heap.

Given this, do C functions that use SCM objects and presumably might
call GC at some point need to declare their SCM variables volatile?

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