From aa9200e51aecc62743a07da8029a8bd0144dd93e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marius Vollmer Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:26:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Talk about non-blockable GC. --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c904278d8..9e571aef3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1173,6 +1173,12 @@ function as the callback instead of a SCM value. Use scm_std_select, scm_std_sleep, scm_std_usleep instead. +** The GC can no longer be blocked. + +The global flags scm_gc_heap_lock and scm_block_gc have been removed. +The GC can now run (partially) concurrently with other code and thus +blocking it is not well defined. + ** Many definitions have been removed that were previously deprecated. scm_lisp_nil, scm_lisp_t, s_nil_ify, scm_m_nil_ify, s_t_ify,