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guardians and weak references

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Message #17 received at 10836 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
Cc: 10836 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10836: guardians and weak references
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:22:27 +0200

Hi!

Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com> skribis:

> However, using finalizers has the downside that it introduces races with
> custom hash/equality predicates.

This sounds similar to <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29616>.

Back then, e9bac3be613f549b932d58913307ae18c89b9ffe fixed it by calling
the custom ‘assoc’ with the allocation lock released (this was with
disappearing links, not finalizers.)

Ludo’.

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