Testing if the implementation can support weak pointers

Name Here theemacsshibe at gmail.com
Tue Jul 30 22:10:04 UTC 2019


Sure, that would be great too.

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:05 AM Luís Oliveira <luismbo at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK. I'd like to cover the other features too.
>
> How about signalling a tg:unsupported-weak-operation error? Would that
> work for your use case? This would be similar to the current mode of
> operation (except we currently signal a generic simple-error).
>
> Cheers,
> Luís
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019, 2:12 AM Name Here <theemacsshibe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, we're trying to factor out the implementation-specific code so that
>> only trivial-garbage needs to be updated for new implementations with weak
>> pointers, but we also want Flexichain to mostly work if the implementation
>> does not support weak pointers, falling back to strong pointers in that
>> case.
>>
>
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