[cffi-devel] A question about memory management and garbage collection

[Luís Oliveira]

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Nitralime <nitralime at googlemail.com> wrote:
> What would be a correct solution to avoid memory leaks in this situation?
> Using a finalizer seems to be a possible way to go. But I'm not sure how
> this can be done by just using the finalizer parameters "object" and
> "function"
> where "function" can't reliablely access "object" (cf. documentation of
> finalizer
> in "trivial-garbage"  package)!!

Here's some pseudo-code to achieve what you're looking for:

  (let ((ptr (grab-your-table-pointer)))
    (tg:finalize your-wrapper-object
                 (lambda ()
                   (table-free ptr))))


HTH,

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Luís Oliveira
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