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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
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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.)
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