[Gc] GC_get_bytes_since_gc locks

[Andy Wingo]

On Wed 24 Aug 2011 16:37, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Andy Wingo <wingo at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>     Things work fine.  We do use GC_get_bytes_since_gc, but apparently
> not
>     while holding the alloc lock.
>
> I checked the Guile sources and according to the current understanding
> of the library it is wrong.

Thanks for looking!  I should poke into ECL some day, I'm sure there is
interesting code there.

But I think you are mistaken here, that call is not in a pre-GC hook, so
there's no deadlocking problem.  Or are you saying that I should be
doing these

> ./libguile/gc.c:  heap_size      = GC_get_heap_size ();
> ./libguile/gc.c:  free_bytes     = GC_get_free_bytes ();
> ./libguile/gc.c:  bytes_since_gc = GC_get_bytes_since_gc ();

within an alloc lock?

Cheers,

Andy
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