On 12/03/10 16:38, Donn Cave wrote:
I have been working on a Haskell interface to the platform API
for Haiku (was BeOS.) It's C++, but the interesting thing at
the moment is the use of threads - a UI window gets its own
thread, and whatever Haskell code will be executed by callbacks
from that thread.
So it was surprising when this turned out to be incompatible
with the -threaded link option. With that option, I get one
callback from a non-main thread, and then that native thread
will die, shortly after return from the callback.
You'll need to elaborate a little. When you say you "get one callback
from a non-main thread", are you saying that the external C++ code makes
a call to a Haskell function? Was it Haskell that called C++ in the
first place? What do you mean by a non-main thread? Why is the native
thread dieing?
You said a UI window gets its own thread - who creates that thread? If
the app has more than one window, does each window get a different thread?
Cheers,
Simon
Results without -threaded are not really so good either (the
application may run and work for a while, but inevitably fail
with various errors that I suppose might be expected), so ...
what do my threads need, to make -threaded work?
The callbacks are `foreign "wrapper"' functions, which means
rts_lock() is already getting called. It looks to me like
that should work the same as if my thread had been invoked
via forkOS, true? Is there anything else that I missed, that
needs to be done to set the thread up for GHC?
(I had been thinking this would not be a unique situation,
rather there would be several other GUI toolkits out there
that use threads in this obvious way, but after a brief review
of the ones I usually hear about, not so sure. If there's
another library that uses OS threads this way, with Haskell
bindings already, that might be something I could steal a
clue from.)
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