Re: Threaded Gtk2->main causing seg fault

[Kevin Leung <xhidem yahoo com hk>]

> > package main;
> > use Gtk2 '-init';
> > use threads;
> > use threads::shared;
> >
> > my $base = Base->new ();
> > share ($base);
>
>
> erm, that's not really supported.  quoting threads::shared:
>
>    BUGS
>        "bless" is not supported on shared references. In the current 
> version,
>        "bless" will only bless the thread local reference and the blessing
>        will not propagate to the other threads. This is expected to be 
> imple-
>        mented in a future version of Perl.
>
> so, i admit i'm actually surprised that it works at all.

I read the bug as "compile time bless would not work, since bless 
reference does not exist before running". Changing the code to

my $base : shared = Base->new ();

would not work at all. I am new to perl, correct me if I am wrong.

Kevin Leung