1 ;;;; weak pointer support
3 ;;;; This software is part of the SBCL system. See the README file for
6 ;;;; This software is derived from the CMU CL system, which was
7 ;;;; written at Carnegie Mellon University and released into the
8 ;;;; public domain. The software is in the public domain and is
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10 ;;;; files for more information.
12 (in-package "SB!IMPL")
14 (defun make-weak-pointer (object)
16 "Allocate and return a weak pointer which points to OBJECT."
17 (declare (values weak-pointer))
18 (make-weak-pointer object))
20 #!-sb-fluid (declaim (inline weak-pointer-value))
21 (defun weak-pointer-value (weak-pointer)
23 "If WEAK-POINTER is valid, return the value of WEAK-POINTER and T.
24 If the referent of WEAK-POINTER has been garbage collected, returns
25 the values NIL and NIL."
26 (declare (type weak-pointer weak-pointer)
27 (values t (member t nil)))
28 ;; We don't need to wrap this with a WITHOUT-GCING, because once we
29 ;; have extracted the value, our reference to it will keep the weak
30 ;; pointer from becoming broken. We just have to make sure the
31 ;; compiler won't reorder these primitives.
33 ;; FIXME: Might it be a good idea to tweak the DEFKNOWNs for
34 ;; %WEAK-POINTER-VALUE and %WEAK-POINTER-BROKEN, so that the
35 ;; compiler will never try to reorder them even in code where we
36 ;; neglect to frame them in a LET?
37 (let ((value (sb!c::%weak-pointer-value weak-pointer))
38 (broken (sb!c::%weak-pointer-broken weak-pointer)))
39 (values value (not broken))))