Re: [PATCH] Final: thread lock nesting debugging

[Neil Jerram]

2008/11/19 Neil Jerram <address@hidden>:
>
> Also I wondered if there are already tools to debug this kind of thing
> (without new Guile code), and a quick search finds this [1], which
> suggests that helgrind could catch bad lock ordering for us.
>
> [1] http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/valgrind/valgrind_113.html

Well, in fact "valgrind --tool=helgrind guile" does produce tons of
output describing apparent lock ordering problems.  I imagine some
will be false positives, but there's a lot to work through.

     Neil