Hm, thanks Andy. I settled on the following solution, no problems: SCM_DEFINE (libguile_fst_writer_emit_value, "libguile-fst-writer-emit-value", 3,0,0, (SCM scm_ctx, SCM scm_fsthandle, SCM scm_val), "Write a change on fstHandle") { // Storage for temporary string char* s = NULL;
scm_dynwind_begin (0); s = scm_to_locale_string (scm_val); fstWriterEmitValueChange(SCM_TO_CTX (scm_ctx), SCM_TO_FSTHANDLE (scm_fsthandle), s); scm_dynwind_free (s); scm_dynwind_end(); return SCM_UNSPECIFIED; } Thanks, Brad -----Original Message----- From: Andy Wingo [mailto:wi...@pobox.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 2:39 AM To: Whitlock, Bradley D Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Guile 1.8 Garbage Collection Question On Tue 25 Oct 2011 22:34, "Whitlock, Bradley D" <bradley.d.whitl...@lmco.com> writes: > scm_dynwind_unwind_handler (free, s, SCM_F_WIND_EXPLICITLY); You can write this as scm_dynwind_free (s), FWIW. Otherwise I didn't see the problem. `s' is not managed by the GC, so the GC shouldn't have much to do with it. Regards, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/