Re: proposal: scm_string2str() and scm_symbol2str()

[Dirk Herrmann]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, stefan wrote:

> On 27 Nov 2001, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> 
> > stefan <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > We could make life easier, if we supplied the following:
> > > 
> > > typedef void * (* scm_t_malloc_func) (size_t);
> > > typedef void (* svz_t_free_func) (void *);
> > > 
> > > SCM_API scm_t_malloc_func scm_c_malloc = malloc;
> > > SCM_API scm_t_free_func scm_c_free = free;
> > 
> > Doesn't _every_ library on Win32 has this problem?  Do they all solve
> > it on their own?
> 
> Yes.  Portable programs solve this problem.  Especially the ancient
> libraries like `zlib' all provide such functionality if necessary.  The
> function pointers seems to be the favourite...

Unfortunately it doesn't work well with threads, at least not in the way
you are suggesting.

Best regards
Dirk Herrmann