This is all running on 64-bit debian-testing. We call CHICKEN_initialize()
and CHICKEN_run() from the thread the chicken code is running in (not the
main thread).

We did not write this C code, and I suspect that disabling threads might not
be worth the effort required (not to mention that I'm not exactly a concurrency
expert). I will fiddle with the stack size and see if that helps.

Thank you for your response!

Durward

On 2/13/24 12:30, felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote:
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We have a (32-bit, fwiw) C program that we are attempting to augment with a
CS function. The program runs in ~17 native threads, but our function only
runs in one of those threads. We call

      CHICKEN_initialize(0, 0, 0, C_toplevel);
      CHICKEN_run(C_toplevel);

after the thread is created, but then it goes off into libchicken and segfaults.
The last usefully-named function it calls is allocate_vector_2().

Is there a useful way to debug what's going on? The threads exchange messages, 
though
I don't believe any of them should be in the purview of CS's GC. Am I missing 
something
obvious?

Is the Chicken code started in the main thread? Also, on what platform
is this running? Threads other than the main thread often have a smaller
default stack (depending on the OS used), so the thread's stack may be
exhausted as the C code generated from Scheme uses the stack as a first
level heap and so needs a bit of space.

You can also try to run the code with a single native thread for testing
to at least have a base that works and continue by enabling threads
from there.


cheers,
felix



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