[Ecls-list] Threaded MSVC broken.

[Samium Gromoff]

From: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru>
Subject: Re: [Ecls-list] Threaded MSVC broken.
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:39:20 +0400 (MSD)

> From: "Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll" <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com>
> > 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.
> 
> Preliminary results show that your version of the change seems
> to work, even if I thought it wouldn't, for reasons that are no
> longer interesting anymore.
> 
> I've briefly tested it by a (reverse (make-list 100000000)).

The reverse part fails with "Too many heap sections", but it remains
to be seen if this is specific to the threaded version..


regards, Samium Gromoff