From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5997b4b7b514f689 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fjh@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length Date: 1997/03/06 Message-ID: <5flmbc$nkm@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 223453199 References: <5fh7hp$l3c@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <5fijee$51j$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: >fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) writes: > >>dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > >>>GC in SNOBOL4 is indeed transparent, and that is the way things should >>>be in my opinion. > >>Does SNOBOL4 have a C interface? > >The (free) DOS/UNIX/VMS port of the SIL implementation of SNOBOL4, by Budne, >does indeed have a C interface. So how transparent is the GC when used with the foreign language interface? Can one pass a pointer to a dynamically allocated SNOBOL4 data structure to the C code? What happens if the last pointer to such a data structure exists only in a C global variable? -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.