Collecting native garbage

[Martin Simmons]

>>>>> On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:34:34 +0300, Victor  said:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Probably this was asked before, or probably you will find this
> question somewhat stupid, nevertheless.
> 
> Is there any kind of a tutorial or a guide into how to achieve
> automatic garbage collection of the native objects referenced from
> Lisp objects?
> 
> So far I found just this thread that contains useful information in
> tiny bits but not a coherent cookbook style guide:
> 
> http://lists.common-lisp.net/pipermail/cffi-devel/2011-May/003541.html

IMHO, this is a misguided approach (see my replies to that thread) so it is
probably good that there is no cookbook style guide :-)  You need to determine
when the native objects are no longer needed by your code and free them
explicitly.

__Martin