From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28628 invoked by alias); 15 May 2014 07:46:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 28615 invoked by uid 89); 15 May 2014 07:46:16 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: sasl.smtp.pobox.com Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (HELO sasl.smtp.pobox.com) (208.72.237.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 May 2014 07:46:15 +0000 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-sasl0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7800011C15; Thu, 15 May 2014 03:46:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pb-sasl0.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-sasl0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CF5B11C14; Thu, 15 May 2014 03:46:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from badger (unknown [88.160.190.192]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-sasl0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CC8D111C0E; Thu, 15 May 2014 03:46:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Wingo To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=), xdje42@gmail.com, tillmann@selfnet.de, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: GDB-Guile vs. libgc 7.4 marker threads References: <83ha54zrry.fsf@gnu.org> <87wqdr1l61.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <83lhu7t8u9.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 07:46:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <83lhu7t8u9.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 12 May 2014 16:39:10 +0300") Message-ID: <87ha4reb7n.fsf@pobox.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: F92BF13C-DC04-11E3-BA3C-D22C48B83612-02397024!pb-sasl0.pobox.com X-SW-Source: 2014-05/txt/msg00221.txt.bz2 On Mon 12 May 2014 15:39, Eli Zaretskii writes: >> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-commits/2014-04/msg00051.html >> Probably the GC_MARKERS hack linked above should be applied to GDB as >> well. WDYT? > > If we are sure this solves the problem, IMO yes. But it would be nice > to try to have a new libgc release that is free from this problem, if > possible. Also, maybe we should document in the same comment what, if > anything, does this restriction mean for GDB-Guile users. I have asked for a new libgc release, but I have not gotten a response. I will ask again. Setting GC_MARKERS=1 is not visible to the user. There is no change in functionality. Using multiple mark threads is purely an optimization. So I don't think it needs to be documented. Regards, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/