FFI, safe vs unsafe

[John Meacham]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 03:16:50PM -0500, Wolfgang Thaller wrote:
> Before adding non-concurrent, reentrant calls to the language  
> standard, please take some time to think about what that means. If  
> you have forkIO'ed multiple threads, things start to interact in  
> strange ways. I think this is a can of worms we don't want to open.  
> (Or open again. It's still open in GHC's non-threaded RTS, and the  
> worms are crawling all over  the place there).

I am still digesting your message, but a quick note is that when you
specify non-concurrent, you arn't saying "it can't be concurrent" but
rather "I don't absolutely need it to be"

so GHC would still treat all reentrant calls as concurrent and that is
a-okay by the spec.

        John

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