Re: disappearing threads

Aleksandar Bakic (bakicale@cps.msu.edu)
Wed, 28 May 1997 13:48:22 -0400 (EDT)

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>
> If you can furnish me a complete, self-contained block of code which
> exhibits the problem, and explain what the expected and actual
> behaviors are, I will definitely be able to fix this. The smaller the
> better, but that's not too important. Basically, if I can make it
> happen on my machine, I can fix it; if I can't make it happen, I have
> almost no hope of fixing it.
>

It still seems difficult to me to extract a small piece of code that
could show the problem. However, I have noticed that SLIB `format'
makes many problems in Guile 1.1. It might be that the thread stops in
`format'. I modified my code so that it doesn't reenter `format' --
actually, I noticed that it would reenter it without the modification,
even though I think it should not ever be able to reenter it (unless
a context switch occurs in `format'). Overall, it seems to me that it
is possible that something is wrong either with `format' alone or with
the combination `format'-threads.

> This bug is third in line, so I'll probably get to it tomorrow.
>
> (If you provided sufficient info in your message of 20 May, I've got
> that already, so don't worry about it.)
>

Aleksandar

-- 
Aleksandar Bakic, Comp.Sci. graduate student at Michigan State University
e-mail: bakicale@cps.msu.edu