Re: Can the Guile library be reentrant

[Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>]

> That's useful to know; I hadn't known the reson for exit vs. return
> before. It seems to be causing me problems as I try to run Guile in one
> thread of a multi-threaded program; when the guile-thread finishes, it
> takes down the whole program.

Documentation would have helped you here.  As I said, it's at the top
of my post-1.3 list.

I think Guile will not work happily in multi-threaded programs at all,
because creating a thread creates a new stack, Guile needs to know
about any stack that might hold heap references.

This is not good citizenship, I agree.  In general, it's a big project
to fix.  NIIBE Yutaka has hacked up a good start to some related
problems, but those changes are too big to do before 1.3.