[M3devel] manual initialization order?

[jay.krell at cornell.edu]

Ok I figured it might be. These modules should probably be disallowed  
from having any initializers, via a pragma. Require it all to be more  
explicit, in init.

  - Jay (phone)

On Apr 28, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu> wrote:

> Indeed it is fragile, but necessary to bootstrap the system.
>
> On 29 Apr 2009, at 00:15, Jay wrote:
>
>>
>> Um, if initializers are so acceptable (I'm skeptical, but everyone  
>> here disagrees with me..) and circularities are not allowed (that  
>> helps I guess..but is it really true? the garbage collector uses  
>> threads, the threading library allocates traced references..I sense  
>> circularity...)...why does RTLinker manually pick an initialization  
>> order? This is fragile.
>>
>>
>>   (* initialize the rest of the modules we'll be calling *)
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RTLinker_I3);  (* myself! *)
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RT0_I3);
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RTSignal_I3);
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RTParams_I3);
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RTDebug_I3);
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RTError_I3);
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RTHeapRep_I3);
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.ThreadF_I3);
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RTHeapInfo_I3);
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RTIO_I3);
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RTCollectorSRC_I3);
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.Word_I3);
>>
>>
>>
>>   (* finally, initialize the runtime. *)
>>   RTSignal.InstallHandlers ();
>>   RTParams.Init ();
>>   RTHeapRep.Init ();
>>   ThreadF.Init ();
>>   RTDebug.Init ();
>>   RTHeapInfo.Init ();
>>   IF RTParams.IsPresent("tracelinker") THEN
>>     traceInit := TRUE;
>>   END;
>>
>>
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RTDebug_M3);
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RTError_M3);
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RTType_M3);
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RTPacking_M3);
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RTTipe_M3);
>>   AddUnit (RTLinkerX.RTException_M3);
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