From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:47:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60909040047q2f3451e4k2880720beb2a1373@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090904071109.11C405B18@mail.bitblocks.com>
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On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Bakul Shah
<bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com<bakul%2Bplan9@bitblocks.com>
> wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:35:35 PDT David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Actually, reading on a bit more they deal with the "variable capture"
> > talking about const copies.
> >
> > Automatic storage variables not marked with __block are imported as
> > const copies.
> >
> > The simplest example is that of importing a variable of type int.
> >
> > int x = 10;
> > void (^vv)(void) = ^{ printf("x is %d\n", x); }
> > x = 11;
> > vv();
> >
> > would be compiled
> >
> > struct __block_literal_2 {
> > void *isa;
> > int flags;
> > int reserved;
> > void (*invoke)(struct __block_literal_2 *);
> > struct __block_descriptor_2 *descriptor;
> > const int x;
> > };
> >
> > void __block_invoke_2(struct __block_literal_2 *_block) {
> > printf("x is %d\n", _block->x);
> > }
> >
> > static struct __block_descriptor_2 {
> > unsigned long int reserved;
> > unsigned long int Block_size;
> > } __block_descriptor_2 = { 0, sizeof(struct __block_literal_2) };
> >
> > and
> >
> > struct __block_literal_2 __block_literal_2 = {
> > &_NSConcreteStackBlock,
> > (1<<29), <uninitialized>,
> > __block_invoke_2,
> > &__block_descriptor_2,
> > x
> > };
> >
> > In summary, scalars, structures, unions, and function pointers are
> > generally imported as const copies with no need for helper functions.
>
> Just read this after posting my last message.
>
> But this has no more to do with parallelism than any other
> feature of C. If you used __block vars in a block, you'd
> still need to lock them when the block is called from
> different threads.
>
>
I just wrote a prime sieve with terrible shutdown synchronization you can
look at here:
http://paste.lisp.org/display/86549
Dave
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2009-09-03 9:52 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-02 11:40 ` Eris Discordia
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2009-09-03 10:48 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-09-03 11:25 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-09-03 13:59 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-03 15:15 ` Uriel
2009-09-03 15:44 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 16:01 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-04 9:15 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-04 16:49 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-09-03 16:02 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-03 18:56 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 18:58 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-03 19:13 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 19:36 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-03 19:50 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 20:30 ` Iruata Souza
2009-09-06 22:35 ` Uriel
2009-09-07 0:41 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 21:08 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-03 21:35 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-03 21:45 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 21:49 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 21:51 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 22:36 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-04 9:16 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-03 22:10 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-09-03 22:07 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-09-04 9:15 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-04 3:21 ` Anant Narayanan
2009-09-04 3:52 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 4:18 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-04 4:44 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 5:31 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-04 5:35 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-04 7:11 ` Bakul Shah
2009-09-04 7:47 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2009-09-04 14:41 ` Bakul Shah
2009-09-04 15:04 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-04 15:58 ` Bakul Shah
2009-09-04 12:14 ` erik quanstrom
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2009-09-04 13:59 ` matt
2009-09-04 14:20 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 14:56 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-06 23:03 ` Uriel
2009-09-07 0:45 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-04 16:50 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-09-04 6:45 ` Bakul Shah
2009-09-04 16:44 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-09-04 16:58 ` Iruata Souza
2009-09-04 17:09 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-09-04 17:42 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 18:34 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 21:54 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-07 9:06 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-07 9:05 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-07 9:40 ` Uriel
2009-09-08 15:31 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-08 15:44 ` Uriel
2009-09-08 16:40 ` Bakul Shah
2009-09-11 18:15 ` Iruata Souza
2009-09-11 18:46 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-11 20:36 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
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2009-09-17 22:32 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-18 2:05 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-09-18 9:30 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-09-18 11:41 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 21:03 ` Uriel
2009-09-03 9:52 ` Greg Comeau
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2009-09-02 15:07 ` David Leimbach
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2009-09-03 15:32 ` Uriel
2009-09-03 15:49 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-03 15:54 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-03 16:20 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
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2009-09-04 1:05 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
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2009-09-06 22:26 ` Uriel
2009-09-04 9:04 ` Greg Comeau
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