WinAPI callbacks and GC

[Regan Heath]

On Wed, 01 May 2013 01:12:39 +0100, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org>  
wrote:

> On Apr 23, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Jack Applegame <japplegame at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> According WinAPI documentation, CtrlHandler will be called in new  
>> additional thread. Is it safe to allocate GC memory in NOT Phobos  
>> threads?
>> If not, how to make it safe? I'm trying call thread_attachThis() at the  
>> beginning of CtrlHandler fucntion, but it doesn't compile because  
>> thread_attachThis() is not no throw.
>
>
> thread_attachThis should probably just be labeled nothrow.  I don't  
> think there's anything in that function that can throw an Exception.

That makes it callable.. but did you see my post about the various timing  
issues with using this in a non-GC thread (potentially while the GC is  
already collecting - or similar).

R

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