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9468 :: Any way to prevent GC from collecting some values?

• morturo (orginal) [2022-09-15T20:44:08+02:00] view original

  I need to pass some data to an external env as a pointer and use this pointer later, but GC will collect this value since there is no ref.

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• elcritch (orginal) [2022-09-15T21:17:53+02:00] view original

  You can call GC_ref/GC_unref on it to manually bump it.

  However it’d probably be better to put it in a global table or array for later access. That’ll keep it from being lost by accident and leading to memory leaks.

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• morturo (orginal) [2022-09-15T23:03:29+02:00] view original

  Thanks man, that's what I need.

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