; -*- Mode: Scheme; Syntax: Scheme; Package: Scheme; -*- ; Copyright (c) 1993-1999 by Richard Kelsey and Jonathan Rees. See file COPYING. ; This manages external roots that can be registered and unregistered in a ; stack-like fashion. It also provides the GC interface for the C FFI. ;---------------- ; Stack of external roots implemented as a list. (define *external-root-stack* null-address) (define *external-root-stack-base* null-address) ; Format of a roots frame: ; 0: number of addresses in the frame, n ; This may be negative---the frame then serves as a marker. ; 1: address of previous frame ; 2: location address of object 0 ; 3: location address of object 1 ; ... ; n+1: location address of object n-1 (define (frame-next frame) (fetch-address (address1+ frame))) (define (frame-length frame) (fetch frame)) (define (frame-ref frame index) (fetch-address (address+ frame (cells->a-units (+ index 2))))) ; Fetch an address. (define (fetch-address address) (integer->address (fetch address))) ;---------------- ; Pushing and popping frames ; You call this with the number of roots to be registered and a frame ; which must contain space for n+2 pointers. (define (s48-push-gc-roots! frame n) (store! frame n) (store! (address1+ frame) (address->integer *external-root-stack*)) (set! *external-root-stack* frame)) ; We aren't allowed to pop past the current base. (define (s48-pop-gc-roots!) (if (address= *external-root-stack* *external-root-stack-base*) #f (begin (set! *external-root-stack* (frame-next *external-root-stack*)) #t))) ; We set the base before we jump to a C procedure from Scheme. When it returns ; we check that everything that was pushed has been popped. The caller saves ; the old base for us. (define (s48-set-gc-roots-base!) (let ((old-base *external-root-stack-base*)) (set! *external-root-stack-base* *external-root-stack*) old-base)) (define (s48-release-gc-roots-base! old-base) (let ((okay? (address= *external-root-stack* *external-root-stack-base*))) (set! *external-root-stack-base* old-base) (set! *external-root-stack* old-base) okay?)) ;---------------- ; This is for permanent roots, such as external global variables. ; We keep these in a simple list. (define *permanent-external-roots* null-address) (define (s48-register-gc-root! loc-addr) (let ((frame (allocate-memory (cells->bytes 2)))) (if (null-address? frame) (error "out of memory registering a global root")) (store! frame (address->integer *permanent-external-roots*)) (store! (address1+ frame) (address->integer loc-addr)) (set! *permanent-external-roots* frame))) (define (permanent-root-pointer address) (fetch-address (address1+ address))) (define (permanent-root-next address) (fetch-address address)) ; This is exported and used to (attempt to) recover from user errors. (define (s48-set-gc-roots-marker! marker) (set! *external-root-stack* marker)) ;---------------- ; Tracing ; ; We just walk down each list. (add-gc-root! (lambda () (trace-external-root-stack) (trace-permanent-external-roots))) (define (trace-external-root-stack) (let loop ((frame *external-root-stack*)) (if (not (null-address? frame)) (let ((length (frame-length frame))) (do ((i 0 (+ i 1))) ((= i length)) (trace-cell (frame-ref frame i))) (loop (frame-next frame)))))) (define (trace-permanent-external-roots) (let loop ((frame *permanent-external-roots*)) (if (not (null-address? frame)) (begin (trace-cell (permanent-root-pointer frame)) (loop (permanent-root-next frame)))))) ; Trace the contents of a cell. (define (trace-cell cell) (store! cell (s48-trace-value (fetch cell)))) ;---------------- ; The point to all this is, in part, to be able to allocate space while ; outside the VM. (define (s48-allocate-stob type size) (make-b-vector type size (ensure-space size)))