[cffi-devel] Re: cffi: Callbacks and threading issues on LispWorks

[Luís Oliveira]

On 2006-jan-02, at 12:15, Eivind Midtgård wrote:

> Dear Mr. Oliveira,
>
> In November 2004 I inquired to Xanalys about callback support in  
> LispWorks on Windows and got the following reply:
>
>  - When running a lisp .exe, you can only call back into Lisp in a
>    thread that was created by Lisp.
>  - When running a lisp .dll, you can call back into Lisp in any
>    thread.
>
>
> The first item is an issue not mentioned anywhere in the cffi  
> documentation. Perhaps it is not important for the most common  
> usage scenarios.
>
>
>
> With best regards,
> Eivind Midtgård

Eivind,

Thanks for pointing this out. We do need to investigate details like  
this and point them out in the documentation.

Happy new year,

-- 
Luís Oliveira
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