[Ecls-list] ECL and Weak Pointers (trivial-garbage)

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Hello.

As I have problems with writing and porting my code in a way that it
works under linux, windows and other minor systems, too, i decided to
try to port it to ECL, because speed is mostly not an issue, and the
gcc, on which it seems to base, is already ported onto many platforms.

I am very new to ECL and so not familiar with most of its features.
What I couldnt find is any Possibility of creating Weak Pointers, but
many existing foreign-library-bindings (i.e. lispbuilder-sdl) using
cffi use weak pointers in some way, mostly basing on the package
trivial-garbage.asd. Watching the Mailing List Archives, and since I
couldnt find any Documentation about it, it seems like there is non
support for weak pointers yet. Is this correct?

Is there anybody already trying to make weak-pointers accessible on
ECL? The documentation sais "Using ECL in existing application
sometimes involves keeping Lisp objects where the garbage collector
normally cannot see them."
(http://ecls.sourceforge.net/new-manual/ch23.html). What exactly does
that mean? If there was a possibility to keep Lisp objects from the
Garbage Collector, it should be possible to use this for creating weak
hash-tables (for example creating references the garbage collector
"doesnt know of"). Is this "keeping away from the gc" somehow related
to http://ecls.sourceforge.net/new-manual/ch20.html (and following
pages)? I couldnt find how to keep Objects away from the garbage
collector, but for me this seemed somehow related to the topic.

Thanks for any suggestions.

css