[mercury-users] Registering memory deallocation functions

[Kral Stefan]

Hi Everyone.

I want to build a little Mercury binding of the GMP BigNum Library.
To do that I need to
	1) allocate some block dynamically using ``mpz_init''
and	2) deallocate the block		   using ``mpz_clear''.

Pt 1 is no problem, as GMP allows to register and use costum 
functions for allocation. I do not know how to address Pt 2.

Do you have any ideas or hints how to register a function 
that should be called when the GC frees an object of
a particular type (say, a GMP integer or float)?

Thank you in advance!

Best regards,
Stefan.

-- 
Stefan Kral            http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/skral/


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