Re: Allowing GC in Allegro CL SMP during foreign function calls

Felix Filozov ffilozov@gmail.com writes:

Do you mean an Allegro CL test? I don't think that's necessary since the manual is clear on the behavior, and I've witnessed GC block in my own code.

Well, manuals lie and bugs exist. :-) The CFFI test suite has found quite a few implementation bugs.

On the other hand, we want to ensure that all supported implementations have the same brehaviour. It'd be nice to have.

From reading other posts in the thread, it does seem that Allegro CL is the outlier.

Yep.

I could add a note in the manual that mentions that whether GC blocks during a foreign function call is implementation dependent.

If we can ensure that the GC does /not/ block it'd be nicer.