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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: Carl Witty <cwitty@newtonlabs.com>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scm_i_fraction_reduce thread safety
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 02:31:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hdz3xocn.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ad4ve61r.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:29:36 +1000")

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:

> But the problem at the moment with reducing fractions is that it's
> happening when merely reading the value out.  Or what one would hope
> was merely reading the value, ie. printing or equality testing.

Yes, I agree that we should do somehting about this, even when the
general problem still remains unaddressed.

User code should only use scm_numerator and scm_denominator to access
parts of the fraction object and those functions will first reduce the
fraction (in a thread safe way).  Wouldn't that be enough?

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-11  1:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-11 11:43 scm_i_fraction_reduce thread safety Bill Schottstaedt
2003-12-11 19:19 ` Carl Witty
2003-12-12 12:11   ` Bill Schottstaedt
2003-12-12 15:04   ` Paul Jarc
2003-12-12 23:23   ` Kevin Ryde
2004-01-10 22:38     ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-10 23:29       ` Kevin Ryde
2004-01-11  1:31         ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2004-01-12  0:51           ` Kevin Ryde
2004-01-12  5:22             ` Richard Todd
2004-01-14 21:09               ` Kevin Ryde
2004-01-21  0:03               ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-21  0:00             ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-21  3:11               ` Carl Witty
2004-01-21 21:06                 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-27 22:15                 ` Dirk Herrmann
2004-01-27 23:24                   ` Rob Browning
2004-01-29 19:35                     ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-29 20:32                       ` Rob Browning
2004-01-30 14:45                       ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-02-01 18:49                         ` Andy Wingo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-09 20:39 Kevin Ryde

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