[wingo]

Cute. The Boehm-Demers-Weiser collector has GC_reachable_here for this reason. Guile has scm_remember_upto_here since before it switched to libgc. I'm sure other systems have their things too.

That said, I like Handle, the RAII thing that V8 uses. It also allows for compacting collection. Too bad C doesn't do RAII.

[thibaut_barrere]

.Net has GCHandle [1] and I believe the JVM calls to JNI have a similar mechanism (GetXXCritical [2])

[1] http://www.shafqatahmed.com/2008/05/memory-control.html

[2] http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/javasdk/v5r0/index....

[onedognight]

While C doesn't support RAII, gcc does: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Resource_Acqu...