Greets :) On Mon 28 Mar 2011 21:22, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> The problem is that libgc ends up being initialized behind our back upon > the first libgc-redirected ‘pthread_create’ call. Indeed. > Hans Boehm suggested [0] two solutions: > > 1. Disable pthread redirects and instead register threads explicitly > (in ‘scm_with_guile’). > > 2. Initialize libgc in a constructor. > > I was leaning towards (2), because this way we’d be in control, and in > particular we’d have GC_all_interior_pointers = 0. It would only work > on GCC/ELF platforms, and only if libgc wasn’t already initialized (for > instance if Guile is used in an application that already uses libgc on > its own)—but that really covers 90% of our use cases. > > I understand you’re in favor of (1). This would give the same behavior > as in 1.8[*] while being less hackish than (2). However, it’s only > applicable to 2.1. Why is this only applicable to 2.1 ? Regards, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
