Re: [Chicken-users] critical-section not in Chicken 3?

[Elf]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Graham Fawcett wrote:

> On Feb 5, 2008 12:30 PM, Elf <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > im pretty sure you need mutexes.  its pretty easy though...
>
>
> Are you saying this because you know (critical-section) behaviour is no
> longer available in the Chicken runtime?

yes, im aware of it, and yes, this is how ive coped with it.

> Note that (critical-section) is not a mutex-synchronizing form: it suspends
> timer interrupts until the body is evaluated (i.e. you are guaranteed that
> no other threads are executing during the evaluation of the body).

see above.  since the disable-timer-interrupts declares arent there anymore,
ive faked it with mutex sections.

>

> > (define-macro (protect-section ml . body)
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> [snip]
>
>
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> I'd recommend using the excellent (synch) egg rather than writing a custom
> mutex-handler.

eh, its a very small number of lines and it doesnt have dependencies.

-elf

>

> Best,
> Graham