[PD] [packOSC] reentrancy problem

[Martin Peach]

So I updated packOSC in svn to detect reentrancy and post a message.
It seems too complicated to allow it.
Here's a patch that does what I believe you want using the preferred method
of bundles.

Martin

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:53 AM, Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-11-05 at 16:23 -0500, Martin Peach wrote:
> > As I see it, the only way that [packOSC] can receive a message before
> > it has completed the previous message is if its own output triggers
> > another message to its input. It may be possible to detect that
> > special case and either let it happen or not, but it's tricky because
> > the buffer for the list is deallocated as soon as the list is output,
> > and the new message arrives while that is taking place. Possibly using
> > a fixed buffer would work better, and also speed up the code. The
> > function then might just exit before it is called again, avoiding the
> > error.
>
> If you're trying a fix, I'm happy to test it (Sorry for not being
> helpful, my C skills... )
>
> Roman
>
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