Shouldn't assert declarations be seen in documentation?

Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 12 04:14:39 PDT 2015


On 12/05/2015 11:02 p.m., tcak wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 10:58:08 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 12/05/2015 10:40 p.m., tcak wrote:
>>> I am developing a web server - web application system, and it is going
>>> to be running on a small system that has 256MB memory at maximum. Hence,
>>> I tried to use every bit of memory without wasting, and used align(1) on
>>> a struct type. Because it is used as shared, and its internal variables
>>> are updated in time, core.atomic.atomicOp is being used. Until today,
>>> whenever I tried to update variables with atomicOp, running thread was
>>> basically returning from that point like nothing happened. After long
>>> debugging, I finally saw that thread has given AssertError with a line
>>> number. There wasn't any information about what was going on. I went to
>>> core.atomic file, and found out that (not on the given line number),
>>> variables should be properly aligned to use atomicOp.
>>
>> Just out of interest, is said web server meant to be comparable to
>> e.g. Apache httpd?
>
> Yes. Web server and application are running separately. Web server is
> parsing request message, and by using host, determining which web
> application to route the request. Web application gets the request, does
> extra parsing like query, path, cookies, etc. and sends response message
> back to web server, and it sends those messages back to client.
>
> I am using shared memory, and named pipe for these to be able to
> increase performance as high as possible. Thus, it is relies on Posix
> and my mostly my own library codes.

I'm also working on a web server[0] hence why I'm asking.
[0] http://github.com/dnetdev/webserver


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