Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] GOBO and eXML

[Berend de B. <be...@po...>]

Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:

>          -- does this work with a moving gc??
> 
> the answer is no: it is not safe when using a moving GC and
> you might get weird behaviors. The only safe way to pass
> pointers to Eiffel objects to C code is to use directly the
> $ construct in the arguments of the external routines. So
> I would suggest that you put all your external routines in
> a class *_EXTERNALS along with routines without POINTERs
> as arguments or results, and that you put this class in
> clusters spec/[ise|se|ve|hact] (you can possibly use 'gepp').

Another option is to have a few caches in string helper where you can
copy the data to, so it's save against the moving gc. For eposix this
seems to be a much better solution than having another layer.

Groetjes,

Berend. (-: