From: Han-Wen <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
Cc: jantien@xs4all.nl, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: any news on 1.6 yet?
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 02:10:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15648.61331.590080.201030@blauw.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fzz3b003.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>
rlb@defaultvalue.org writes:
> > Can someone puleaze put in the following remark into the GUILE
> > documentation?
> >
> >
> > Be warned that the thread library (pthreads) will impose a 512k
> > limit on the stack size, when compiling GUILE with thread
> > support.
> >
> > We spent a _long_ time being flabbergasted at why our program dumped
> > core on perfectly valid data and innocent instructions.
>
> Wow, that's annoying -- do you know if this is an arch dependency, OS
> dependency, etc?
You're f*cked once you link with libpthreads (I could produce a crash
linking to guile --without-threads and libpthreads). Apparently the
thread package does include some functions to set the stackspace, but
those must be called before a thread is spawned. I know zilch about
threads, so I don't know the details behind this.
We managed to get the stack usage of our functions and GC mark
functions down (which is probably a good idea performance wise), but
it was annoying nevertheless.
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys | hanwen@cs.uu.nl | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen
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2002-07-01 10:53 any news on 1.6 yet? Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-01 21:40 ` Rob Browning
2002-07-02 0:10 ` Han-Wen [this message]
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