[gtkada] Tasking with GtkAda

[Oliver Kellogg]

Hello,

We followed the advice given at

http://docs.adacore.com/gtkada-docs/gtkada_ug/_build/html/tasking.html

but still found that our program would crash after a varying amount of time, at varying places (usually ending somewhere in libpango).

All backtraces had in common that recompute_idle_func() was involved.
Here is an example backtrace:

(sns_main:2426): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_layout_line_get_extents: assertion 'LINE_IS_VALID (line)' failed

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff57b5955 in pango_context_get_font_description () from /lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff57b5955 in pango_context_get_font_description () from /lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0
#1  0x00007ffff57ba4c8 in pango_layout_get_empty_extents_at_index () from /lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0
#2  0x00007ffff57bd175 in pango_layout_line_get_extents () from /lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0
#3  0x00007ffff69d3a66 in gtk_entry_adjust_scroll () from /lib64/libgtk-3.so.0
#4  0x00007ffff69d5190 in recompute_idle_func () from /lib64/libgtk-3.so.0
#5  0x00007ffff65e66b8 in gdk_threads_dispatch () from /lib64/libgdk-3.so.0
#6  0x00007ffff4d34d7a in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7  0x00007ffff4d350b8 in g_main_context_iterate.isra () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8  0x00007ffff4d3538a in g_main_loop_run () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
#9  0x00007ffff6a4d045 in gtk_main () from /lib64/libgtk-3.so.0

Our program makes GUI widget update calls from Ada tasks.

We changed the program so that the Ada tasks put their widget update requests into a protected-object based queue, and in the main program we call Glib.Main.Timeout_Add with a function that reads from this queue and executes the requests.
Since that change, our tasking program has been running without crash.

Oliver





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