Re: [Gc]: Request: get signum for resume?

[Ivan Maidanski]

Hi Jan,

Sure. Please prepare a patch (against master branch in Git repo).

Regards.

15 12 2011, 17:37 Jan Wielemaker <J.Wielemaker at vu.nl>:
> Hi,
> 
> Just making SWI-Prolog run under bwdgc wasn't too hard! I ran against
> one glitch that can easily be fixed. It turns out the application should
> not play with the collector's signals. Well, that is documented and not
> a surprise. Prolog however catches most signals to generate a Prolog
> exception.
> 
> I found GC_get_suspend_signal(), which gives me a nice portable way to
> leave that one unmodified, but I must do the same with SIGXCPU (test
> platform is Linux) and reading the source indicates there is no
> 
> 	GC_get_resume_signal()
> 
> Could this be added?
> 
> 	Thanks --- Jan
> 
> P.s.	Time for extensive testing and evaluation of memory usage and
> 	performance.  I'm very curious.  If it works out I can ditch
> 	a lot of code :-)
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