Re: [cffi-devel] ECL specific changes for CFFI

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll < juanjose.garciaripoll@googlemail.com> wrote:

That was the probably the original intent. Is this problematic for

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ECL? (I'm guessing it's because of the GC?)

It is very problematic because ECL allocates and frees foreign memory using the garbage collector. If the user applies FOREIGN-FREE upon a pointer that was NOT created using CFFI, then ECL's garbage collector will choke. The tests we causing ECL to hang.

I attach you an updated patch that fixes CFFI's test suite. Could you please include it in the tree? With the current abuse of FOREIGN-FREE ECL hangs and this is causing my test farm a lot of headaches.

Juanjo