Re: Trouble joining with threads from C

[Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>]

Heya Ludo,

On Fri 15 Apr 2011 23:44, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

>> For example in the following program:
>>
>>     void* thread (void*)
>>     {
>>       scm_with_guile (do_something, NULL);
>>       scm_with_guile (do_something_else, NULL);
>>       return NULL;
>>     }
>>
>>     int main ()
>>     {
>>       pthread_t thr;
>>       pthread_create (&thr, NULL, thread, NULL);
>>       pthread_join (thr, NULL);
>>       return 0;
>>     }
>>
>> When do you propose that the cleanup handlers for the thread be called?
>
> I’ll followup on this later, but currently it seems impossible to call
> GC_INIT from a thread other than the initial thread [0].

Interesting; I had it working at some point, in the context of that
other bug;  anyway, the same considerations hold if you scm_init_guile
in the main thread first.

Cheers,

Andy
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