Hi Gerald, On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:58:22PM +0200, Gerald Klix wrote:

yesterday I checked in the final version of the rcytpes design document. I am convinced I finally got everything right. Especially the management of keep alive pointers.

Thanks! We progressed on rctypes quite a bit, and indeed we are implementing a keepalive scheme very much inspired by the one you are describing. One difference (which we did not implemented so far) is that structures and arrays that contain several pointers will likely need one keepalive per pointer field or array item, to be able to keep all stored pointers' target memory alive. A bientot, Armin.