[gclist] Advice requested

[Fergus Henderson]

On 27-Apr-1999, David Chase <chase@world.std.com> wrote:
> At 02:47 PM 4/27/99 +0100, Stephen Biggs wrote:
> >Also, the only C++ garbage collectors I've seen don't cope well with a
> >multi-threaded environment and aren't guaranteed to be 100% correct. I'm
> >told by our Unix programmers here that thread suspension, for a start, is
> >out (so for Unix the option would be to ask the programmer to call garbage
> >collection methods manually, somehow!).
> 
> Untrue, though the solutions to this problem are semi-nasty.  But,
> there are solutions.

Yes.  See the source code of the Boehm (et al) collector for examples,
in particular the functions GC_suspend_handler() and GC_stop_world()
in the *_threads.c files.

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