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Re: Signal Handling in Guile


Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:
 > In a way, signals are actually handled synchronously.  What you're
 > talking about is restricting the points of synchronization.

Well... yes, you're right.

 > What about, then, to restrict the synchronization points to the
 > occurences of SCM_TICK, i.e. at the top of SCM_CEVAL and in
 > scm_equal_p?

That's good.

 > Let's hold our breath and give it a try!  :-)
 > 
 > 2000-03-13  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 > 
 > 	* __scm.h (SCM_ALLOW_INTS, SCM_REALLOW_INTS): Removed call to
 > 	SCM_ASYNC_TICK.  (This is a preparation for POSIX threads support,
 > 	and kind of an experiment: Will this cause problems?)

Wow great!  Thanks.  I must speed up my development. :-)

People, please let us know how things're changed with this.
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