Re: portable finalizer

From: Mark Hoemmen <mark.hoemmen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:19:08 -0700

Marco Gidde wrote:

Tamas Papp <tkpapp@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

I am wrapping a void * cffi pointer and some extra information in a
CLOS object. When the object is garbage-collected, I would like to
have the memory location freed. I have found out how to do
finalization in SBCL, but I want to make my code portable.

A related question -- are finalizers called when the object falls out of scope, or when a GC is called?

If the latter, how can we instruct the GC to be aware of limited resources (like malloc'd memory, file handles, etc.)?

mfh
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