On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Shawn Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:39 PM, felix winkelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The C_alloc is a macro that actually does alloca(), so you are allocating >> stack data that is not live after returning from the function. You will > > Hmm, I thought C_return made that OK, because it's normal for objects > to live on the stack. But you are saying that's only true if I use > foreign-primitive?
C_return does other things but does not save live data from the stack to the heap. > >> either have to use `foreign-primitive`(to create a CPS function), or > > Why don't you prefer that approach? Well, the pass-the-box approach appeared simpler, but foreign-primitive is probably the cleaner approach and doesn't require you to create a wrapper function. cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
