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Re: bdw-gc includes in libguile.h
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: bdw-gc includes in libguile.h |
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:41:36 +0200 |
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Greets :)
On Mon 28 Mar 2011 21:22, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> The problem is that libgc ends up being initialized behind our back upon
> the first libgc-redirected ‘pthread_create’ call.
Indeed.
> Hans Boehm suggested [0] two solutions:
>
> 1. Disable pthread redirects and instead register threads explicitly
> (in ‘scm_with_guile’).
>
> 2. Initialize libgc in a constructor.
>
> I was leaning towards (2), because this way we’d be in control, and in
> particular we’d have GC_all_interior_pointers = 0. It would only work
> on GCC/ELF platforms, and only if libgc wasn’t already initialized (for
> instance if Guile is used in an application that already uses libgc on
> its own)—but that really covers 90% of our use cases.
>
> I understand you’re in favor of (1). This would give the same behavior
> as in 1.8[*] while being less hackish than (2). However, it’s only
> applicable to 2.1.
Why is this only applicable to 2.1 ?
Regards,
Andy
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- bdw-gc includes in libguile.h, Andy Wingo, 2011/03/25
- Re: bdw-gc includes in libguile.h, Andy Wingo, 2011/03/25
- Re: bdw-gc includes in libguile.h, Ludovic Courtès, 2011/03/25
- Re: bdw-gc includes in libguile.h, Andy Wingo, 2011/03/25
- Re: bdw-gc includes in libguile.h, Ludovic Courtès, 2011/03/27
- Re: bdw-gc includes in libguile.h, Andy Wingo, 2011/03/28
- Re: bdw-gc includes in libguile.h, Ludovic Courtès, 2011/03/28
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- Re: bdw-gc includes in libguile.h, Ludovic Courtès, 2011/03/28
- Re: bdw-gc includes in libguile.h, Andy Wingo, 2011/03/29
- Re: bdw-gc includes in libguile.h, Ludovic Courtès, 2011/03/30
- Re: bdw-gc includes in libguile.h, Andy Wingo, 2011/03/30