On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Phong Vo <k...@research.att.com> wrote: > >> Mhhh... wasn't there a way to do a longjmp from a signal handler >> (|siglongjmp()|) ? If AST |malloc()| is (still) async-signal safe >> (that's a question for kpv) then a builtin could _optionally_ use this >> way to enable all signals and do a |siglongjmp()| to a safe point >> within itself for resource cleanup... >> ... would that work ? > > Some space may be lost forever from getting reused because the respective > data structures will > remain locked after a longjmp. Otherwise, safe.
(Not stressing my imagination how this should possibly work without twisting all 11 dimensions of the multiverse) Is there a way to construct a |siglongjmp()| wrapper which avoids this ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.ma...@nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list ast-developers@research.att.com https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
