Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Calling C functions from Franz Lisp Message-ID: <12373@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 8 Jul 88 17:28:27 GMT References: <12196@sunybcs.UUCP> <484@aiva.ed.ac.uk> <12363@mimsy.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 18 In article <12363@mimsy.UUCP> I wrote, in response to >In article <484@aiva.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes: >>(1) In many versions of Franz, you may not be able to use malloc >>without confusing Lisp. the following confusing paragraph: >The Lisp allocator does not care if something else steals pages, >but the malloc allocator might. (I am not sure that this is true >of all versions of Franz, but note that stdio uses malloc, and >Franz uses stdio.) What I meant is that calling malloc after Franz starts up may not confuse Franz, but may confuse malloc. (The 4BSD malloc()s are safe, though.) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris