Re: bus error when use threads and native mode on Mac

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:02, Yoann Padioleau <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use threads in my lablgtk application but it crashes (I am on Mac OS)
> in native mode with a mysterious "Bus Error".
> I have linked my program with -thread and use
>  GtkThread.main ();
> in the main but it does not work. It works nice in bytecode mode though.
>
> My program displays some fancy graphics with cairo and then run in the background using a thread
> some heavy computation that I access on demand from the main thread when the user click
> on certain things.
>
> My code also uses GMain.Idle and Gmain.Timeout (don't know if it's relevant).

It might ! Timeout and idle callbacks have different rules than the
usual widget event callbacks wrt. threading.
cf. http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/stable/gdk-Threads.html#gdk-Threads.description

  « Idles, timeouts, and input functions from GLib, such as
g_idle_add(), are executed outside of the main GTK+ lock. »

-- 
  Olivier