From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: [bug #24554] Pthreads and Stack overflow in guile (reopen bug 20814?) (guile 1.8.5) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:50:44 -0400 Message-ID: <2635792.1059581224003044911.JavaMail.root@cdptpa-web28-z01> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224003126 8802 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2008 16:52:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:52:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org, Kannan Vijayan To: Kannan Vijayan Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 14 18:53:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kpn8h-0008Tv-K1 for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:52:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55305 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kpn7c-0003al-WC for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:51:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kpn6i-0003KS-Io for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:50:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kpn6g-0003Il-VC for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:50:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40486 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kpn6g-0003IR-Be for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:50:50 -0400 Original-Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.121]:43883) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kpn6c-0002qs-PY; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:50:46 -0400 Original-Received: from cdptpa-web28-z01 ([10.127.132.119]) by cdptpa-smta01.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20081014165044.HLSF20942.cdptpa-smta01.mail.rr.com@cdptpa-web28-z01>; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:50:44 +0000 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Sensitivity: Normal X-Originating-IP: from 66.178.229.162 by webmail.roadrunner.com; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:50:44 +0000 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:4050 Archived-At: ---- Kannan Vijayan wrote: > > Follow-up Comment #2, bug #24554 (project guile): > > I have confirmed that the bug is not really a bug. The debian changelog > indicates that the --with-threads option was turned off with one of the 1.8.0 > releases of guile due to a bug. It doesn't seem to have been turned back on > since then. I would imagine that --with-threads will not be turned back on until a 1.10.x (or 2.0.0 ?) release of Guile. My limited understanding of the situation (possibly incorrect): Using --without-threads changes the sizes of some data structures (I'm guessing they are smaller, with some pthreads stuff #ifdef'ed out), so that code compiled for one way will segfault when linked with code compiled for the other way. As far as just releasing new packages --with-threads, It's just not possible to go back an recompile all the currently existing packages on already existing systems. -Dale