[mercury-users] prallel grades in windows

Sergey Khorev sergey.khorev at gmail.com
Sun Sep 12 18:06:51 AEST 2010


Hi Julien,

>> Debugging this kind of error will be very difficult without specific
>> knowledge
>> of the Mercury runtime system, and compilation strategy.  Such a bug could
>> also be within the garbage collector.
>
> The latter is (unfortunately) a strong possibility.  There have been
> quite a few patches for Boehm GC since 7.2 alpha 4 (the version we
> currently use for Mercury) that were bugfixes for thread-related stuff
> on Windows.  (I intend to upgrade the collector again once 7.2 is
> released, but that hasn't happened yet.)

Ah, forgot to say I am using MinGW. This gives me idea: if the crash
is caused by GC, .nogc grade should be working better. Will try.

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