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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: bug-guile@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: deadlock in make_struct()
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:34:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vx9yx7q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3y6zijai8.fsf@pobox.com

Hi Andy,

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> I was about to write about how your patch looked incorrect to me,
> because GC could see a half-initialized struct (and potentially sweep
> it, with a bad free function); but I just looked back and back into the
> history, and could not find why the critical section was there. It has
> been there since Jim Blandy imported the whole mess into CVS in 1996.

Kevin asked the same question a while back:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2007-02/msg00006.html

One we've had enough developers wondering why it's here, maybe we can
safely remove it.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo'.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-18 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-16 18:28 [PATCH]: deadlock in make_struct() Linas Vepstas
2008-11-17 21:41 ` Andy Wingo
2008-11-18 13:34   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2008-11-19 22:52     ` Neil Jerram
2008-11-30 19:34       ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-11-18 22:05   ` Linas Vepstas
2008-11-19 12:21     ` Han-Wen Nienhuys

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