[e-lang] Ecru REPL bugs

[Allen Short]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:48:01 -0400, Sandro Magi <naasking at higherlogics.com> wrote:

>There's libGarbageCllector [1] if you're in a hurry to do this. It's a
>bit wasteful of space, and not as incremental as it purports to be, but
>it's the only GC available as a portable C library that I'm aware of
>(other than the conservative libgc that is).

Interesting -- I'll have a look. In the short run, it looks like the main problem is use of Python's 'ctypes' FFI: it can keep pointers to objects that the GC can't see. If I rewrite more of the bridge code in C, these pointers will stay on the C stack and thus be found during GC.