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Re: [LONG] Re: Calling Scheme from C and Garbage Collection

On Tue, Dec 01, 1998, Russ McManus wrote:
> 
> Maybe you are keeping a pointer to a SCM value that is not protected
> from gc?  After you allocate a compiled regexp, how do you make sure
> that it never gets gc'ed?  Maybe all you need is a scm_protect_obj().
> 
That was it ! (strangely I missed it when I read the source.)

Thanks a lot for your help.
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