DLLs and headaches

[Don]

Richard Webb wrote:
> Don Wrote:
> 
>> If D2 -- I haven't been able to get D2 DLLs to work at all. They just 
>> crash during the initialization (something to do with initialising the 
>> thread-locals, I think, but I haven't been able to track it down 
>> completely).
> 
> Hi,
> I've recently been having a go at writing a COM object in D, and have run into this when trying it in D2.
> 
> Debugging through it, i get a crash on the 
> 
> void* pstart = cast(void*) &_tlsstart;
> 
> on line 1192 of thread.d, due to a null pointer access.

Yes, that's the exact same place where it crashed for me.

> This sounds like the issue described at http://www.nynaeve.net/?p=187 ?

Indeed it does. Thanks for the link, that's tremendously helpful.

> Is this a known problem with D2 ?

It wasn't, but it is now. Walter has created bugzilla 3342.