[Gd-hackers] Suggested patch for Open Dylan's C runtime

[Hannes Mehnert]

Hi Bruce,

Bruce Hoult wrote:
> On 7/30/07, Hannes Mehnert <hannes at mehnert.org> wrote:
>> I just commited that patch to the subversion repository. Thanks a lot.
> 
> This patch appears to put finalized objects onto a queue for later
> running, rather than running them from within the GC. Good!
> 
> BUT .. it does a GC_NEW() from within the finalizer, which is called
> from within the GC.  Therefore the GC is entered recursively.  This is
> very very bad and will bite you one day and you won't know why.

Oh, that's bad. Have you got a patch around which prevents calling
GC_NEW within the finalizer? ;) I just added your comment to the
specific part of the code.

Hannes