How store libGMP bigint&-ratnum:s within a parent Garbage Collected environment with movable objects so that libGMP values must be absent of any absolute pointers whatsoever?
Tinker
tinkr at openmailbox.org
Sat Feb 28 09:33:43 UTC 2015
Hi!
I have a GC:ed heap wherein I want to store my libGMP bigint&-ratnum:s.
This means that I provide the memory allocator, and also it means that
libGMP must store one bigint/bigratnum as one single solid byte array
only, i.e. one such value cannot be split up in more memory allocations,
because between libGMP calls my GC changes memory location of heap
objects frequently, and therefore the values may utilize no absolute
memory pointers.
How do I use libGMP in this way?
As I see it it's extremely important that libGMP supports this, because
this is the only way that a garbage collected environment.
(Methods with static memory addresses for values would risk memory
fragmentation, and not being exposed to that risk is the exact reason I
use a GC.)
Thanks!
Mikael
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