On Jun 29, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> Am 29.06.2011 17:52, schrieb Sean Kelly:
>> I really want to fix this--the current patch is frustrating to deal
>> with--but I don't have the time yet.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jun 29, 2011, at 12:40 AM, "Daniel Murphy"<[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "Benjamin Thaut"<[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>> I just build dmd, druntime and phobos fromt the latest git revision (as
>>>> druntime does not build with dmd 2.053). The game does build with it, but
>>>> as soon as it starts a exception gets thrown in the GC which does not get
>>>> cought by any of my catch blocks.
>>>> Maybe I did something wrong building dmd, is there a guide somewhere?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Recent changes have made allocating memory from the GC while a collection is
>>> running (eg inside a class destructor) throw an exception. Is it possible
>>> your code is doing this?
>>>
>>>
> If I manually merge your fix into the thread.d of the 2.053 runtime (change m
> to __gshared in slock) the issue still exsits. After a while the game will
> stop with "unable to load thread context".
Just for kicks, rewrite the GetThreadContext call as this and see if it works
in 2.053:
for( int i = 0; !GetThreadContext( t.m_hndl, &context ); i++ )
{
if( i > 99 )
throw new ThreadException( "Unable to load thread context"
);
Thread.yield();
}
