[M3devel] RTHeapStats assumption of two calls in ProcessStacks?

[Tony Hosking]

Yes, I had forgotten about that nasty assumption.  That code should really be fixed to eliminate the assumption.

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On 22 Nov 2009, at 03:41, Jay K wrote:

> UNSAFE MODULE RTHeapStats;
> 
> (* The code below makes the following NASTY assumption:
>       ThreadInternal.ProcessStacks calls its argument twice for
>       each thread -- the first time for the stack, the
>       second time for its registers. *)
> 
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> It makes sense to violate this assumption, for the current running thread.
> But I guess there isn't anything to gain by doing that?
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> Thoughts?
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> I'll preserve this behavior, which I was otherwise on the verge of changing.
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>  - Jay

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