leanprover / leanprover/reference-manual
Reference Counting
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Description
What question should the reference manual answer?
How is memory allocated and deallocated in Lean? How are reference counts managed? How should C FFI code interact with reference counting?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. First determine where reference-manual material on Lean memory management and C FFI belongs; done means a reference section answers allocation and deallocation, reference-count management, and C FFI interaction.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100