Dave,
Thank you I believe I have the necessary information now to generate a workable 
simulation of your Thread.SML in F#.  
David


Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:55:11 +0100
From: David Matthews <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [polyml]  Semantics of Threading Intrrupt Flags and proper
        interpretation in .Net simulation
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Hi David,


On 06/06/2011 23:48, Dave Thayer wrote:
> My questions are
>
> 1.       What is the semantics of these flags as related to the behavior of 
> threads and the Interrupt signal?

Have you looked at http://www.polyml.org/docs/Threads.html ?  There's an 
explanation there.  If it's not clear please let me know.  This is really one 
of the most problematic bits of the threading model in Poly/ML.

>
> 2. Can a single word be used to model these flags thusly (see below)
given that I am using a completely different runtime than what you are
calling into?
> 1 ->  InterruptDefer
> 2 ->  InterruptSynch
> 4 ->  InterruptAsynch
> 6 ->  InterruptAsynchOnce
> 8  ->    BroadcastInterrupt

Poly/ML currently uses a single word for these.  The mapping is
1 -> Broadcast
OR-ed with:
2 -> Synch
4 -> Asynch
6 -> AsynchOnce

It's actually in the second word of a 4-word thread object.  The first 
word is a tagged integer which is an index into the thread table in the 
run-time system, the third points to a list of thread-local data and the 
fourth is a "hint" used in interrupt handling.

Regards,
David
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