question

[Adam D Ruppe]

On Wednesday, 13 December 2023 at 12:49:14 UTC, fred wrote:
> a bug ?

It helps if you explain what you're talking about so we don't 
have to guess.

I tried the code on my computer and it worked fine. But then 
figuring, you must be saying something doesn't work right, I 
tried it on another compiler and saw it endlessly loop.

So it ended using my dmd 2.098, looped on my dmd 2.105.... but 
this is actually just coincidence. Consider this:

---
     void s2()
     {
         shared(bool) isDone = false;
         spawn(&w2, &isDone);
         Thread.sleep(400.msecs);
         w("done");
         isDone = true;
     }
---

The variable `isDone` is temporary; as a local variable, it 
ceases to exist when s2 returns. So when w2 tries to check if it 
is done or not, it takes a bit of luck for the memory to still be 
the same value as it was; it has likely been recycled or 
otherwise cleared by then.

You need to keep the variable alive until *both* threads are done 
with it, either by doing some fancy synchronization between the 
threads or just letting the garbage collector manage the shared 
variable:


```
     void s2()
     {
          // let the GC do it
         shared(bool)* isDone = new shared bool;
         spawn(&w2, isDone);
         Thread.sleep(400.msecs);
         w("done");
         *isDone = true;
     }
```