They are garbage collected so you do need to protect them in C code.
Best,
luke
On Sat, 13 Feb 2016, Holger Hoefling wrote:
Hi,
I had a technical question about CHARSXP and garbage collection and
couldn't find the answer in the R manual.
The question is this. Are CHARSXP garbage collected l
Hi,
I had a technical question about CHARSXP and garbage collection and
couldn't find the answer in the R manual.
The question is this. Are CHARSXP garbage collected like any other object,
despite being part of the CHARSXP cache? i.e. is the cache being cleaned by
garbage collection regularly and