is a "leave_blocking_section()" call enough to guarentee that?

liulk

On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 12:57  PM, Damien Doligez wrote:

>> I think garbage collection inside the callback is probably okay, if 
>> it doesn't do other fancy things, such as dispatching signals or 
>> influence thread scheduling. What does O'Caml runtime do during 
>> garbage collection?
>
> Garbage collection inside the callback is probably OK, if you can 
> guarantee
> that the callback does not occur during garbage collection, or any 
> other
> operation that assumes that memory doesn't move under its feet.
>
> -- Damien
>

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