[MLton] Shared libraries for MLton

Matthew Fluet fluet@cs.cornell.edu
Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:17:27 -0400 (EDT)


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> >>>>>    o NOTE: The first garbage collection provokes a crash, the
> >>>>>            error is probably to be found here.
> 
> >>As best I can make out, the problem is that the Thread_returnToC primitive 
> >>does not leave the ML stack in a good state.  Apparently, we don't do as 
> >>many assertions and don't make as many assumptions about the 
> >>callFromCHandler thread as we do about the currentThread.  And, whatever 
> >>bad state the callFromCHandler thread is in, it is fixed when transfering 
> >>control to an _export-ed ML function before a GC occurs when the 
> >>callFromCHandler thread as been switched to.
> 
> > Interestingly enough, if I add
> > 
> > 	GC_switchToThread (&gcState, gcState.callFromCHandler, 0);	\
> > 
> > to the end of init_function in c-main.h, then I can get Jens' example to 
> > compile and run without any segfault.  As a bonus, this also works for the 
> > bytecode codegen, though the native x86 codegen has a mysterious segfault 
> > when trying to return to init_function.
> 
> Did you do more? If I add the above line, recompile mltin and then run 
> the c-test I get:
> 
>    ...
>    init_function> After main
>    Call from C to SML raised exception.
>    unhandled exception: Fail: Thread.atomicEnd with no atomicBegin

Yes, you need to modify basis-library/mlton/mlton.sml to inc the atomic 
state before returning to C, since the thread switch will dec the atomic 
state.

I've attached my current diff, based on your previous patch and following
my recent commit to regularize the names of _build_const constants.
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