[Rd] [External] Thread-safe R functions

[Jiefei Wang]

Thanks, Gabriel and Luke. That is exactly what I would like to know. I
appreciate your suggestions.

Best,
Jiefei

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 6:08 AM Gabriel Becker <gabembecker using gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jiefei,
>
> Beyond the general response that Luke gave, to be a bit more specific to
> what you said, DATAPTR and INTEGER_GET_REGION involve ALTREP method
> execution (for ALTREP objects, obviously) so even they are not as simple
> and straightforward as they were a couple years ago. They should not (any
> longer) be thought of as being guaranteed to be essentially bare metal data
> retrieval from memory.
>
> Best,
> ~G
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 6:49 AM <luke-tierney using uiowa.edu> wrote:
>
>> You should assume that NO functions or macros in the R API are
>> thread-safe.  If some happen to be now, on some platforms, they are
>> not guaranteed to be in the future. Even if you use a global lock you
>> need to keep in mind that any function in the R API can signal an
>> error and execute a longjmp, so you need to make sure you have set a
>> top level context in your thread.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> luke
>>
>> On Sun, 13 Sep 2020, Jiefei Wang wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am curious about whether there exist thread-safe functions in
>> > `Rinternals.h`.  I know that R is single-threaded designed, but for the
>> > simple and straightforward functions like `DATAPTR` and
>> `INTEGER_GET_REGION`,
>> > are these functions safe to call in a multi-thread environment?
>
> >
>> > Best,
>> > Jiefei
>> >
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