Last crash when writing code hopefully fixed. Taking care now not to read from view-buffer in a thread (only do this in GTK-main-thread).

juci/source.cc

@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ HighlightToken(clang::Token *token,
 // Constructor for Controller
 Source::Controller::Controller(const Source::Config &config,
                                Notebook::Controller &notebook) :
-  config(config), notebook(notebook) {
+  config(config), notebook(notebook), parse_thread_go(false), parse_thread_mapped(false) {
   INFO("Source Controller with childs constructed");
   view.signal_key_press_event().connect(sigc::mem_fun(*this, &Source::Controller::OnKeyPress), false);
   view.set_smart_home_end(Gsv::SMART_HOME_END_BEFORE);
@@ -316,35 +316,50 @@ void Source::Controller::OnOpenFile(const string &filepath) {
                                    notebook.index());
     view.OnUpdateSyntax(parser.ExtractTokens(start_offset, end_offset), config);
 
-    //OnUpdateSyntax must happen in main thread, so the parse-thread
+    //GTK-calls must happen in main thread, so the parse_thread
-    //sends a signal to the main thread that it is to call the following function:
+    //sends signals to the main thread that it is to call the following functions:
-    parsing_done.connect([this](){
+    parse_start.connect([this]{
+      if(parse_thread_buffers_mutex.try_lock()) {
+        notebook.MapBuffers(&this->parse_thread_buffers);
+        parse_thread_mapped=true;
+        parse_thread_buffers_mutex.unlock();
+      }
+      parse_thread_go=true;
+    });
+
+    parse_done.connect([this](){
+      if(parse_thread_mapped) {
         INFO("Updating syntax");
         view.
           OnUpdateSyntax(parser.ExtractTokens(0, buffer()->get_text().size()), config);
         INFO("Syntax updated");
+      }
+      else {
+        parse_thread_go=true;
+      }
     });
     
-    buffer()->signal_end_user_action().connect([this]() {
+    std::thread parse_thread([this]() {
-	std::thread parse([this]() {
+      while(true) {
-	    if (parsing.try_lock()) {
+        while(!parse_thread_go) std::this_thread::yield();
-	      INFO("Starting parsing");
+        if(!parse_thread_mapped) {
-	      while (true) {
+          parse_thread_go=false;
-		const std::string raw = buffer()->get_text().raw();
+          parse_start();
-		std::map<std::string, std::string> buffers;
-		notebook.MapBuffers(&buffers);
-		buffers[parser.file_path] = raw;
-		if (parser.ReParse(buffers) == 0 &&
-		    raw == buffer()->get_text().raw()) {
-		  break;
-		}
         }
+        else if (parse_thread_mapped && parsing.try_lock() && parse_thread_buffers_mutex.try_lock()) {
+          parser.ReParse(this->parse_thread_buffers);
+          parse_thread_go=false;
           parsing.unlock();
-	      parsing_done();
+          parse_thread_buffers_mutex.unlock();
-	      INFO("Parsing completed");
+          parse_done();
+        }
       }
     });
-	parse.detach();
+    parse_thread.detach();
+    
+    buffer()->signal_changed().connect([this]() {
+      parse_thread_mapped=false;
+      parse_thread_go=true;
     });
   }
 }

juci/source.h

@@ -146,7 +146,12 @@ namespace Source {
     void OnLineEdit();
     void OnSaveFile();
     std::mutex parsing;
-    Glib::Dispatcher parsing_done;
+    Glib::Dispatcher parse_done;
+    Glib::Dispatcher parse_start;
+    std::map<std::string, std::string> parse_thread_buffers;
+    std::mutex parse_thread_buffers_mutex;
+    std::atomic<bool> parse_thread_go;
+    std::atomic<bool> parse_thread_mapped;
     
     const Config& config;
     Notebook::Controller& notebook; //TODO: should maybe be const, but that involves a small change in libclangmm