D threading and shared variables

[Archie Allison]

On Sunday, 7 April 2019 at 14:35:24 UTC, Doc Andrew wrote:

> When you say it "rarely works" when run as a GUI app (vs 
> console), it makes me think that there's probably a race 
> condition going on, and the extra context switching that takes 
> place in GUI mode makes it more likely. I haven't tried it in 
> D, but you may be able use Application Verifier with your app 
> to add checks for lock contention. Without more information 
> about the way your threads are synchronized it's hard to say 
> for sure though.

The codebase is a reasonable size so too big (and proprietary) to 
share.

It's always run with a GUI (GTKD), it's just the difference in 
linking so launching (a)GUI + attached console for stdout.writeln 
vs. (b)just the GUI window. There's nothing I'd expect to cause 
races or deadlocks.