Grand adventures merging the threads branch

[Reini Urban]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto
<jonathan at leto.net> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
>> It is undefined which thread will receive the signal (I asked Leont),
>> but with "some"(TM) hopefully the wrong thread will catch it.
>>
>> With the tsan tool I could repro it always.
>
> What about teaching the Parrot test suite to use tsan, if it is available?
>
> It seems like an extremely useful tool to weed out bugs like this. Obviously,
> it would be an optional dependency that Configure.pl would detect, and then our
> tests could run certain code with tsan.
>
> Reasonable or insane?

Reasonable, but there are a lot of races detected.

But I would rather wait for clang3.2 where -fthread-sanitizer is builtin,
and you can properly skip certain races to be reported.
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Reini Urban
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