Grand adventures merging the threads branch

[Jonathan "Duke" Leto]

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?

Duke



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