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Re: [PATCH][PR guile/17247] Block SIGCHLD while initializing Guile


Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> skribis:

>> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 13:20:48 -0700
>> From: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
>> Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
>> 
>> Users are going to want to start threads.
>
> If users want threads in Guile, they can use Guile.
>
> In GDB, Guile is just an extension language.  I see no catastrophe in
> saying there are some restrictions to what a Guile extension in GDB
> can and cannot do.

That can be acceptable, but requiring users to re-build Guile and GC
without thread support is not, IMO.

Ludoâ.


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