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Indeed you are right, this is definitely a bug and could cause errors.

I guess the solution would be to add an explicit API to create a GC root, invoked by native methods (which is a bit complicated by the fact that I use a moving collector).

Many years ago I was using SpiderMonkey in a c++ project and I seem to remember there were some APIs for native callbacks to invoke that rooted values. Same problem and similar solution. :-)

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> I guess the solution would be to add an explicit API to create a GC root, invoked by native methods (which is a bit complicated by the fact that I use a moving collector).

This is why I do in the Wren VM. Any time a native C function has the only reference to a GC-managed object and it's possible for a collection to occur, it calls a function to temporarily add the object to a list of known roots.

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