Threading bugs

[Tristam MacDonald]

Would explicitly running a full collect cycle at the end of main (and wrapping logic in an inner function work around this? More likely some would still be left though.

Johan Granberg Wrote:

> Tristam MacDonald wrote:
> 
> > Oh cripes, right, with that fixed your wait solution works fine, but I
> > still can't find why destructors are not  called at termination with
> > threads?
> 
> An old newsgroup post by Walter
> http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D&artnum=11455
> i don't like this behavior myself but that's it.
> 
> > Johan Granberg Wrote:
> > 
> >> Tristam MacDonald wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Hmm, I don't see anything relevant in either the changelog or the news
> >> > group (haven't finished searching the latter though).
> >> > 
> >> > I am not sure I understand, shouldn't all remaining objects have their
> >> > destructors called when the program exits? What would happen if the
> >> > object had a non trivial destructor (dispose of shared memory, flush an
> >> > iostream, etc.)?
> >> > 
> >> > The point I don't understand, is why is this only the case when I am
> >> > using threads? And I think the thread implementation may be a little
> >> > buggy here anyway, why on earth would the assert statement below cause
> >> > a 'Bus Error'?
> >> 
> >> Because you are redeclaring worker in the Main constructor, change this
> >> line
> >>  Thread worker = new Thread(&workerMain);
> >> to this
> >>  worker = new Thread(&workerMain);
> >> 
> >> and it will probably work.
> >> 
> >> > class Main
> >> > {
> >> > this() {
> >> > writefln("starting");
> >> > 
> >> > Thread worker = new Thread(&workerMain);
> >> > worker.start();
> >> > }
> >> > ~this() {
> >> > writefln("ending");
> >> > }
> >> > 
> >> > int workerMain()
> >> > {
> >> > writefln("In Thread");
> >> > return 0;
> >> > }
> >> > 
> >> > Thread worker;
> >> > }
> >> > 
> >> > int main()
> >> > {
> >> > Main m = new Main();
> >> > 
> >> > assert(m.worker.getState() == Thread.TS.TERMINATED, "Thread not
> >> > done!");
> >> > 
> >> > return 0;
> >> > }
> >>
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