GC failure w/ THREAD_LOCAL_ALLOC ?

Thu Mar 28 23:08:00 GMT 2002

>>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:

Hans> Here's a patch. It's bigger than it needs to be in that it
Hans> includes some fixes for related things that I wasn't quite
Hans> comfortable with while proofreading the code. Most of those
Hans> were already in my version. Many of them make it easier to
Hans> debug any similar problems we might encounter in the future.
Hans> Unless someone wants to object, or I encounter further test
Hans> failures, I will check the whole thing into both the trunk and
Hans> the branch sometime tomorrow.
I applied this and tested in on alpha Linux.
First I found a situation where I could reliably make GCTest hang.
Then I rebuilt with the patch and re-ran GCTest with the same
arguments. I was unable to make it hang again. Then I tried running
it with other (larger, and thus presumably "harder") arguments. I was
still unable to make it hang.
So, I'm happy. Thanks for debugging this.
Hans> I have seen no more failures with the patch, so far. And I did
Hans> finally reproduce them without it. It would be interesting if
Hans> particularly Jeff and Michael could confirm that.
I'd also like to hear from Bryce.
Tom