Re: Upcoming 1.3.2 release

[Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj-pc.nada.kth.se>]

Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:

> That sounds great;  we exchanged email a while back about ability to
> register a C function to be invoked at start and end of garbage
> collection.  Might that make it into 1.3.2?  It's definitely nice to be
> able to provide feedback to the user of an interactive application about 
> when garbage collection is occurring.

The new hooks have both Scheme level and C level interfaces.

If we add before-gc-hook and after-gc-hook before 1.3.2 we could warn
now about %gc-thunk disappearing in 1.3.4.

Jim?

BTW Has Greg Harvey included these hooks in his sources?