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From: "Hans Åberg" <haberg-1@telia.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>,
	"Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org>,
	guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] Do not GC_INIT the Boehm GC if already initialized
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 23:00:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76D5C0B3-A878-40C6-851F-5148CA940CC8@telia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k00clkg1.fsf@gnu.org>


> On 20 Feb 2023, at 11:06, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> According to the Boehm GC documentation, this 'conditional
>> initialisation' is unnecessary:
>> 
>> /* Portable clients should call this at the program start-up.  More   */
>> /* over, some platforms require this call to be done strictly from the*/
>> /* primordial thread.  **Multiple invocations are harmless.**         */
>> #define GC_INIT() [...]
>> 
>> (emphasis added).
> 
> The “Multiple invocations” bit isn’t in libgc 8.0.4.  Which version are
> you looking at?

It is in MacPorts boehmgc @8.2.2 (devel), which Guile lists as a dependency.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-20 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-06 18:34 [RFC,PATCH] Do not GC_INIT the Boehm GC if already initialized Jose E. Marchesi
2023-02-06 20:56 ` Jean Abou Samra
2023-02-06 21:05   ` Jose E. Marchesi
2023-02-07 12:29 ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-20 10:06   ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-02-20 18:01     ` Maxime Devos
2023-02-20 22:00     ` Hans Åberg [this message]

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