[M3devel] formsedit crash

[Jay K]

I thought about this a little..but..don't Modula-3 user threads preempt at arbitrary points?

 - Jay


> From: dragisha at m3w.org
> To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:37:48 +0200
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] formsedit crash
> 
> I've had some funny race/thread-order conditions when I was switching to
> pthreads.... Someone lazy got too grooved in with fixed order of
> execution implied by how user threads work. It was in pp package and
> also somewhere I can't remember right now... Will look a bit through hm3
> svn (dead in house spinoff of pm3 from times when all mainstream m3 had
> was user threads).
> 
> On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 07:49 +0000, Jay K wrote:
> > I have it further narrowed down to the last two weeks of 1/2007.
> > Which is just a few changes.
> > I fear it is the switch from user threads to pthreads on 1/23/2007.
> > I'll narrow it down further though, and then try user threads on
> > Solaris
> > (which will probably require repairing initialization order to make
> > them work
> > again anyway).
> > 
> >  - Jay
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> > To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> > Subject: formsedit crash
> > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:18:54 +0000
> > 
> > The formsedit crash appears to have started between 12/1/2006 and
> > 3/1/2007.
> > I will confirm and further narrow this down over the next few days.
> > I've been building various dates/versions and seeing how they act.
> > 
> >  - Jay
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> -- 
> Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org>
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