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From: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
To: OCaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] C-threads & callbacks
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:19:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050130101945.GC4213@yquem.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050120182313.GB4919@quant3.janestcapital.quant>

> I'm currently interfacing a 3rd-party library that spawns threads
> to execute callbacks.  I would like those callbacks to be handled by
> OCaml-code, but have run into some issues here.
> 
> As it seems, it is not possible to run OCaml-code linked with thread
> support while letting C-threads perform callbacks.  This has already
> been a topic on the list a while ago.

Correct.  This is still on my "to do" list.  It sounds feasible but
requires some intervention in the runtime system and the threading
library, so it's not something that can be done on the side by
3rd-party code.

- Xavier Leroy


      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-30 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-20 18:23 Markus Mottl
2005-01-20 18:58 ` [Caml-list] " Daniel Bünzli
2005-01-20 19:23   ` Markus Mottl
2005-01-20 19:37 ` Alex Baretta
2005-01-20 20:19   ` Markus Mottl
2005-01-21  1:16 ` SooHyoung Oh
2005-01-21  6:42   ` Alex Baretta
     [not found]     ` <200501211042.31749.vincenzo_mlRE.MOVE@yahoo.it>
2005-01-24 20:00       ` Markus Mottl
2005-01-30 10:19 ` Xavier Leroy [this message]

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