Re: defadvice on garbage-collect doesnt work?

[joakim]

Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:

> jpw@pobox.com (John Paul Wallington) writes:
>
>> joakim@verona.se writes:
>>
>>> I would like to use the information returned by (garbage-collect) but
>>> it doesnt seem right to do a garbage collect everytime the modeline is
>>> displayed, therefore i would like to store the values calculated by
>>> the last gc in a variable:
>>
>> How about sticking something to collect information on `post-gc-hook',
>> the hook run after garbage collection has finished ?

That seems nice, but the hook runs after the gc, right? So how can I
acess the returnvalue of the gc from the hook?

> I suspect this would be a better approach. While defadvice is a really great
> feature, I've found you can have some issues with it when trying to use it on
> very low level functions - mainly those which are based in C source. 
>
> Tim
>
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> tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au

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Joakim Verona