[plt-scheme] bus error on exit

[Robert Nikander]

On Nov 7, 2007, at 7:39 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:

> At Sun, 4 Nov 2007 15:13:00 -0500, Robert Nikander wrote:
>> I've embedded mzscheme, and my main program calls exit() from a non-
>> scheme thread, which leads to a bus error in
>> 'scheme_do_close_managed' in thread.c.  Is there a recommended way to
>> shutdown the embedded mzscheme in this situation?
>
> I don't yet have any good ideas for this.
>
> MzScheme could provide a way to let you disable the work it does via
> atexit(), which is mostly just to flush output ports. Would that be
> enough?


Yes I think that would be fine, but I should clarify my situation, in  
case I gave the impression that I can't call functions from within  
the scheme thread before "exit" gets called -- I can do that, because  
I get notified of the impending exit.  I don't want to call "exit"  
itself, but that does stop the bus error.   I don't know if that  
changes your answer.  I was thinking something like the following  
might be possible...

     void scheme_self_terminate()
     {
         run atexit actions
         disable atexit actions
         if I care about freeing memory:
             free all allocated memory
         pthread_exit()
     }

... which could also be used when the embedding OS process wants to  
keep running.  Otherwise, disabling the atexit handlers should work  
for my situation.

Rob