spawn bug?

[Adam Conner-Sax]

The attached code usually hangs (running on OSX, dmd 2.051).

It uses spawn to create a new thread.  All the thread does is create a large
array of doubles. In one case it uses the Array!double from std.container.  In
the other case it uses the built in dynamic double[].  It declares the array,
sets the length, then sends a message to main saying it is finished and exits.

The Array!double case always runs fine.  The built-in dynamic array case
usually hangs, though not always in the same place.

And the array has to be sufficiently big (in my case 200000 or bigger I think)
or the problem doesn't occur.

I've no idea why.  It took me a *long* time to find this since it manifested
as very mysterious hanging in a more complex piece of threaded code.  Now I've
switched to using Array!double in my code and it all works fine.


Adam

(An example run)

Spawned foo 1
Spawned foo 2
Spawned foo 3
Spawned foo 4
Finished foo 1
Finished foo 2
Finished foo 3
Finished foo 4
Spawned bar 1
Spawned bar 2
Spawned bar 3
(stays here without finishing)

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