From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Derek Upham <sand@blarg.net>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cygwin port of Guile 2.2
Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 21:35:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760hjt5k0.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ziew4836.fsf@priss.frightenedpiglet.com> (Derek Upham's message of "Mon, 01 May 2017 13:48:13 -0700")
On Mon 01 May 2017 22:48, Derek Upham <sand@blarg.net> writes:
> Running pthread_join() on a thread only guarantees that the thread has
> returned an exit value.
Would you mind providing a reference please? It is not that I don't
believe you but I think it's important to know whether this is a bug in
Guile or in the pthreads implementation.
> the on_thread_exit() function has the comment
>
> /* This handler is executed in non-guile mode. */
>
> at the top. Can someone explain what that means and what the
> implications are? How can I safely invoke the contained code from
> other contexts?
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Initialization.html
Basically this code is not automatically traced by GC, it can't
allocate, and it can't call (most) libguile functions.
Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-02 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-04 16:45 Cygwin port of Guile 2.2 Mike Gran
2017-04-04 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-14 8:35 ` Andy Wingo
2017-04-14 13:41 ` Derek Upham
2017-04-17 8:04 ` Andy Wingo
2017-04-17 15:05 ` Derek Upham
2017-05-01 20:48 ` Derek Upham
2017-05-02 19:35 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2017-05-03 3:18 ` Derek Upham
2017-05-03 9:24 ` Andy Wingo
2017-05-03 9:39 ` szgyg
2017-05-03 14:21 ` Derek Upham
2017-05-09 19:08 ` Andy Wingo
2017-05-12 14:13 ` Derek Upham
2017-05-15 20:06 ` Andy Wingo
2017-05-04 5:21 ` zv
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