GC failure w/ THREAD_LOCAL_ALLOC ?

Tue Mar 26 19:49:00 GMT 2002

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>>"Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> writes:
>>>>>>>>Bryce> Well, I noticed that it is much more likely to happen when the
>Bryce> machine is busy with other tasks. If the machine is otherwise
>Bryce> idle, the problem doesn't seem to occur.
>>I tried a lot of things, including rebuilding gcc while running it,
>but can't cause it to fail on x86. On the alpha I can make it fail
>pretty easily, as it turns out, by using different parameters. `50
>50' makes it fail there.
>
Hmm, must be some other problem on alpha, because alpha does not use 
THREAD_LOCAL_ALLOC. My problem definately occurs only when 
THREAD_LOCAL_ALLOC is enabled.
regards
Bryce.