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@mkitti mkitti commented May 28, 2024

Add GC.@preserve when calling unsafe_transcode! since buffer to memory conversions involve raw pointer conversions.

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From what I can tell there are a lot of missing GC.@preserve in unsafe_transcode!.
Unless Julia automatically preserves all function inputs?

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mkitti commented May 28, 2024

From what I can tell there are a lot of missing GC.@preserve in unsafe_transcode!. Unless Julia automatically preserves all function inputs?

Currently, I think the GC.@preserve might be implicit becuase input and output are used latter in the function. Also the flow control with @goto may be difficult to optimize. However, a future optimization could do some kind of struct splitting, garbage collecting part of input or output in the future.

As far as I can tell, I think preserving the function input should be sufficient for the allocated memory to remain stable for the duration of the function call.

@mkitti mkitti merged commit 8541891 into JuliaIO:master May 28, 2024
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