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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
To: bug-guile@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Final: thread lock nesting debugging
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:21:08 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gfrr46$osq$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ae3aa420811162042n4b5d50e3i136a9f7b00262a69@mail.gmail.com>

Linas Vepstas escreveu:
> I've been seeing all sorts of deadlocks in guile, and so I wrote a small
> debugging utility to try to track down the problems.  I'd like to see
> this patch included in future versions of guile.
> 
> I found one bug with this tool, and have submitted a patch for that
> already.  It looks like there's another bug involving signals --
> there is a probably deadlock in garbage collection if a signal
> is sent at just the wrong time. The bug can be seen by enabling
> this patch, and then running 'make check'.  I'm going to ignore
> this, as I'm not worried about signals right now.
> 
> This is my "final" version of this patch, I'd sent a beta version
> a few days ago. Its "final" because I'm not anticipating any
> further changes.

Would it be possible to have this be a runtime switch?  My experience
is that conditional code in GUILE (especially the debugging ones) tend 
to bitrot very quickly.  Also, they don´t help anyone who is not compiling
their own GUILE.

-- 
 Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen





  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-17 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-17  4:42 [PATCH] Final: thread lock nesting debugging Linas Vepstas
2008-11-17 13:21 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys [this message]
2008-11-18 13:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-11-19 23:14 ` Neil Jerram
2008-11-19 23:21   ` Neil Jerram
2008-11-20  0:22     ` Neil Jerram
2008-11-20 16:03   ` Linas Vepstas
2008-11-20 18:33     ` Linas Vepstas

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