This is the mail archive of the guile@cygnus.com mailing list for the guile project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]

Re: Can the Guile library be reentrant



> Until GNU Libc 2 is rightfully and justly adopted as the Universal
> Standard, perhaps a gh_broken_libc_init() could be implemented which
> takes the top-of-stack pointer as an argument.  Then it's the
> application's responsibility to pass a reasonable value.

I don't think people will be able to reliably find the stack base.

> Come to think of it, this could be beneficial if the application knows
> it won't store SCMs above point x in the call stack.  Why scan above a
> frame which both initializes and destroys the interpreter?

This is begging for trouble.  Remember that GC-related bugs are
intermittent, and very hard to track down.


Okay, this is on the post-1.3 to-do list.