Oh, yeah, and another thing#

Sun, 28 Sep 2003 03:30:34 +0000

Oh, yeah, and another thing. GC hooks are playing up on some platforms, including Linux 2.6. So I installed it on my desktop yesterday (which is a rant for another time; the motherboard onboard audio is now painful to listen to) to have a look at. Th\xce problem seems to be with hooks that cons. Likely fix for for 0.8.4 is to remove the before-gc hooks altogether - they weren't that useful anyway - and move the after-gc hooks (which includes the code that runs finalizers for dead objects, so it's worth keeping) later, so that they don't run until the instance is in a more normal state (e.g. other threads are resumed, gc lock has been released, etc).