[Gc] Calling ‘GC_pthread_create’ from a pthread key destructor

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Ivan Maidanski <ivmai at mail.ru> writes:

>> pthread_setspecific (key, GC_STRDUP ("hello, world"));
>
> Just one note. Are you aware that this code is equivalent (since TLS is not traced by GC) to:
>
> (void)GC_STRDUP ("hello, world");
> pthread_setspecific (key, <some_number>);

Yes.  The only point of this statement is to stress the GC and associate
an initial value with the key (otherwise its destructor is never
called.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.