Re: Implementation of the promise smob

[Andy Wingo]

On Thu 19 Aug 2010 19:10, Abhijeet More <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> I noticed that the implementation of the "promise" smob did not have
> any "mark" function defined.
> This smob does contain a couple of other SCM objects.
>
> Can someone explain how these objects are not cleared up by the gc
> (since nobody marks them as live)?

If you do not provide a mark function, the GC will treat all words in an
object as pointers, and mark them.

The problem, I think, is not that the promise refers to its value: it is
that something is mistakenly referring to the promise (and thence to the
value).

Andy
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