From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About removing the low level thread API
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:51:25 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d5srpuky.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ljis48ya48.fsf@troy.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:20:23 +0100")
Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de> writes:
>
> On the other hand, Guile itself both works on systems that do provide
> a pthread API, and on systems that do not. C code written for Guile
> might want to support both cases as well (being properly thread safe
> by default, but still compilable even when the pthread API is not
> available).
guile-gtk is an example of that. I still don't think guile needs to
provide functions or whatever that merely shadow pthreads, but some
crib notes in the manual or somewhere on how to work with threads in C
and support both guile 1.6 and 1.8 would be good.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-18 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-03 16:20 About removing the low level thread API Marius Vollmer
2005-03-04 0:48 ` Kevin Ryde
2005-04-18 22:51 ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2005-04-19 21:30 ` Rob Browning
2005-04-20 22:35 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
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