On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:juanjose.garciaripoll@googlemail.com" target="_blank">juanjose.garciaripoll@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">

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<div class="gmail_quote"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">That was the probably the original intent. Is this problematic for<br>



ECL? (I&#39;m guessing it&#39;s because of the GC?)<br></blockquote></div><div><br>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&#39;s garbage collector will choke. The tests we causing ECL to hang.<br>


</div></div></blockquote></div><br>I attach you an updated patch that fixes CFFI&#39;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.<br>


<br>Juanjo<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC<br>c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) <br><a href="http://tream.dreamhosters.com" target="_blank">http://tream.dreamhosters.com</a><br>