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Re: Calling MPW C code: is malloc safe?
- To: westling@starbase.mitre.org (Mark Westling)
- Subject: Re: Calling MPW C code: is malloc safe?
- From: moon (David A. Moon)
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 18:52:19 EST
- Cc: info-mcl
> From: westling@starbase.mitre.org (Mark Westling)
> Date: 25 Jan 93 22:10:13 GMT
>
> I'm calling MPW C code using MCL 2.0's foreign function
> interface. My program bombs occasionally (but not
> consistently), and I suspect it's due to malloc calls. Is
> it safe to use the MPW memory allocation/deallocation
> calls in a Lisp environment, or should I create a static
> array and manage it all myself?
Calling malloc (or C++ new) works reliably for me. Perhaps your C program
would bomb even if you weren't running it under MCL?