Re: changes to symbol table on the GUI branch

[Jacob Dawid]

John,

I didn't see that you expected an answer. I just acknowledged what you have said. The problem I had was a thread-safety issue when reading octave_values within the GUI, even when I compiled octave with the atomic_refcount option. It led to crashes when executing lengthy scripts in the GUI in many different places, which always had to do with octave_value, although (for safety), I always duplicate octave_values when working with them.

The problem wasn't solved with my changeset, rather I could decrease the number of different places where crashes occured randomly. Probably I might need some assistance, so that I correctly reverting my changes.

Jacob

Am 12. März 2012 19:20 schrieb John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:

Jacob,

I don't remember seeing a response from you about the following
message I sent back in February, I haven't seen any discussion on the
maintainers list about thread safety of the symbol table, and the
changes to the symbol table are still present on the gui branch.

Will you please remove those changes from the gui branch and bring up
the issues that prompted those changes on the maintainers list so we
can decide what the appropriate changes should be?

jwe

 Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 11:45:19 -0500
 To: Jacob Dawid <address@hidden>
 cc: Jordi Guti=E9rrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
 Subject: recent changes to symbol table on the GUI branch
 From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>

 I noticed that you made some changes to the symbol table code on the
 gui branch, but I don't recall any discussion of those changes on the
 maintainers list.

 Please don't make changes outside of the gui subdirectory unless you
 have first discussed them on the maintainers mailing list.

 jwe

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