Re: GC asserts and threads

[Neil Jerram]

2008/9/9 Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden>:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Tue 09 Sep 2008 07:58, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Is there any code in GUILE that would create a thread  (possibly
>>> leading to race conditions) when there is no explicit start-thread
>>> call in the code?  The program (lilypond) does run through the
>>> regular GUILE boot procedure.
>>
>> Yep, when compiled with threads, guile spawns a separate thread to
>> handle signals.
>
> Where does that happen?

Look for "ensure_signal_delivery_thread" in scmsigs.c.

   Neil