Re: Rational

[Hans Åberg]

> On 23 May 2018, at 14:34, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hans Åberg <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> I mentioned that the GC supports traditional allocations/deallocation,
>> but they must be traced so as to not end up with dead pointers.
> 
> Hans, please.  You are proferring utter trivialities.  There is a reason
> that Guilev2 support is available in a rudimentary form, and the reason
> is that people actually have bothered dealing with the respective
> problems and getting Boehm GC bugs flagged and fixed or at least worked
> around in the Guile and LilyPond code bases.
> 
> If you don't believe me, feel free to make yourself acquainted with the
> respective code.  You want to offer advice but at your current level of
> knowledge about LilyPond, it would be a rather strange coincidence if
> you could offer anything not already well-known and well-considered.

They are not mentioned in the link you gave, so it looks as though like you 
insist on using untraceable containers, which of course, will end up with dead 
pointers.