GNU bug report logs - #75761
request make-bytevector/pointers

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Matt Wette <matt.wette <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:06:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Matt Wette <matt.wette <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guile <at> gnu.org
Subject: request make-bytevector/pointers
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:05:11 -0800

make-bytevector allocates pointerless memory.

For using bytevectors to store structures used with C libraries we 
really need pointer-search, I believe.

Please add.

Matt
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From: Matt Wette <matt.wette <at> gmail.com>
To: 75761 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75761: Acknowledgement (request make-bytevector/pointers)
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:11:39 -0800

Another option would be to add a procedure to add "watch location" in a 
bytevector.
The GC could just look at those locations.

Matt
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