From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Core dumps in redisplay.
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:38:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x53bvh6kar.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49e5a9dfdc9abedb548ffb2ba94ee4bb@swipnet.se> (Jan D.'s message of "Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:34:30 +0100")
"Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
>>
>> This sounds like normally only the main thread should ever be touching
>> interrupt_input_blocked, unless we have a bug. Correct? So we need
>> not think about how to synchronize accesses to the variable, but
>> rather make sure that no thread except the main thread will ever run
>> code touching it. Correct?
>>
>> A use of BLOCK_INPUT or UNBLOCK_INPUT outside of the main thread is a
>> bug. Correct?
>
> Yes times three.
xmalloc uses BLOCK_INPUT. BLOCK_INPUT is rather often used in alloc.c.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-28 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-26 13:40 Core dumps in redisplay David Kastrup
2005-02-27 13:43 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-27 18:56 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-27 20:08 ` Jan D.
2005-02-27 20:21 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-27 20:35 ` Jan D.
2005-02-27 21:28 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-27 22:08 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-02-28 5:34 ` Jan D.
2005-02-28 10:38 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-02-28 17:15 ` Jan D.
2005-02-28 17:46 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-28 19:09 ` Jan D.
2005-02-28 19:38 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-28 20:05 ` Jan D.
2005-02-28 20:29 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-28 17:14 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-28 14:49 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-04 18:54 ` Jan D.
2005-02-27 21:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-27 22:36 ` David Kastrup
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