[Ecls-list] Threaded MSVC broken.

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 26 07:55:21 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Samium Gromoff
<_deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru> wrote:
> I've just looked at the GC's DllMain(), and my uneducated conclusion
> was that the GC_init() is called as a result of the DLL's init routine,
> which is initiated by ntdll signalling a PROCESS_ATTACH message to
> ecl2.exe being started. That is, if we ignore whe whole PROCESS_ATTACH
> message, the next time we get to deal with GC, is cl_boot(). I think.

The thing is that we probably are not allowed to ignore that message,
because this routine also registers the main thread with the garbage
collector. Without this process, the garbage collector will not be
able to locate data in the running threads. So in short: we cannot get
rid of that DllMain routine, but we can probably fix it as I mentioned
before: imposing our own garbage collection flags before the library
gets initialized.

Juanjo

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