What's blocking DDMD?

Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 22 09:04:53 PDT 2014


On Tuesday, 22 July 2014 at 15:07:14 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Daniel Murphy"  wrote in message 
> news:lqlugc$7l7$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
>> The crash when using the GC as the allocator seems to have 
>> gone away (!!) so it may have been one of the others in 
>> disguise.
>
> Wait I take that back.  It still crashes when using the GC and 
> GC collections enabled.
>
> Usually it uses Walter's bump-pointer allocator for classes, 
> malloc/free for most buffers, and the GC (with collections 
> disabled) for structs and some misc allocations.
>
> I don't know why enabling the GC makes it crash.

I started a Dustmite reduction at DConf to attempt to reduce the 
input that made DDMD corrupt memory. The blasted thing ran for 
weeks and got nowhere close... it seemed almost random. I guess a 
different approach is required.


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