Foreign threads in D code.

[Igor Shirkalin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 at 06:18:44 UTC, Biotronic wrote:
> On Monday, 10 July 2017 at 20:03:32 UTC, Igor Shirkalin wrote:
>> [...]
>
> If DRuntime is not made aware of the thread's existence, the 
> thread will not be stopped by the GC, and the GC might collect 
> memory that the thread is referencing on the stack or in non-GC 
> memory. Anything allocated by the GC would still be scanned.
>
> To inform DRuntime about your thread, you should call 
> thread_attachThis:
>
> https://dlang.org/phobos/core_thread.html#.thread_attachThis
>
> As pointed out in the documentation of thread_attachThis, you 
> might also want to call rt_moduleTlsCtor, to run thread local 
> static constructors. Depending on your usage, this might not be 
> necessary.
>
> --
>   Biotronic

Thanks for very useful information!