Re: Chicken git egg: bug & patch

[Kristian Lein-Mathisen]

Hi Megane,

Like Evan says, the libgit2 project doesn't keep your pointers around so that should be safe. But thanks for pointing that out, errors caused by these things are very hard to track down.

I'd actually never thought about a off-gc memory heap before. That is a very interesting idea! I'm sure it's overkill for the git egg, but I will definitely keep it in mind on my next memory management adventures.

K.

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021, 10:42 Evan Hanson <evhan@foldling.org> wrote:

I think we can probably just use blobs and locatives to keep things
simple, without needing to involve finalizers or similar tricks.  This
library is pretty good about leaving memory management up to the client,
and they provide an object for indirection (the git_buf) when that's not
possible. I'll have a look when I get a chunk of spare time.

Thank you Kristian for digging into this, it is very helpful.

Evan