On Apr 19, 2012, at 6:50 PM, "Andrew Lauritzen" <andrew.laurit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Gah, not this again. *sigh* >> >> It is semi-well tested as in that I'm relying on it for async I/O in Thrift, >> and its test suite now passes on every Windows box I tested. >> >> If you can spare the time, it would be great if you cloud download DMD 2.057 >> and try if the test case also fails with it on your setup. The reason is >> that I changed the way the top of the SEH chain is set up for fibers in >> 2.058 to make it work on Windows Server 2008/2008 R2, and maybe I >> inadvertently screwed up the stack alignment/… (you have to reverse-engineer >> the gritty details of SEH as you are going, and you never know whether you >> really »got it right« in terms of Microsoft's internal specs). > > Yeah I feel your pain on Windows SEH stuff and lack of docs. I actually work > with someone who used to work on Visual C++ so I'll see if I can get any > info/links out of him on the subject that may be helpful :) > > In the mean time, as per the issue in the discussion, the plot has thickened > to include there being apparently side-effects to putting > break-points/debugging the code itself, which throws a big wrench into my > analysis of what is going wrong. Suffice it say, I'm not sure it's actually > D's problem, although I'm still worried by the "Stack Overflow" message. > > I'll grab 2.057 and give it a test though to see if the behavior is any > different. Thanks! Stack overflow? Give the fiber a larger stack when you create it. The default is really rather small.
