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

[Bruce Hoult]

On 8/1/07, Thomas Christian Chust <chust at web.de> wrote:
> Bruce Hoult wrote:
> > Right. :-)  Looks good provided that link object won't get GC'd in the meantime.
>
> But if that happened, I would consider it a bug in the garbage
> collector. I my eyes, being the fixed parameter to a registered callback
> fully qualifies an object as being alive.

I agree.  My point is only that it's probably better to check that
this bug does not exist now, while you're thinking of it, than for
someone find it by accident later when it might take many hours to
figure out what is going on.