Subj : Re: SpiderMonkey crashes on invalid JSAtom*
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : "itaj sherman" <myngs@hotmail.com>
Date : Mon Feb 24 2003 06:13 pm


i tried a few things but it always seems to crash randomly on one of the
threads after running for a while.

the threads that execute the scripts don't run the GC (because i implemented
the GCCallback, only the GC thread does).
i looked in the code of js_GC and it seems that if the callback returns
false then the thread won't execute the GC and won't let any other thread do
it.
so at first thought i expected the GC thread to have to wait till the other
threads got out of the JS_Begin/EndRequest scope, that wraps the evaluation
of the scripts.
i looked more into the code, and am i right to say that the only other
option for the GC to run while the other threads evaluate scripts is because
they suspend the request while they're in ClaimScope() ?
if so, could i somehow force the GC to be posponed till after the end of the
evaluation? even just for the purpose of checking if it would stop the
crash.

thanks
itaj

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