Subj : Re: possible infinite loop?
To   : Edward Chan <echan@macromedia.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Thu Sep 04 2003 06:40 pm

Edward Chan wrote:

>I'm wondering if anybody may have experienced an infinite loop using
>SpiderMonkey.  I have an app that looks like it has gone into an infinite
>loop.  Using a Microsoft debugging utility called ADPlus, I've taken a
>snapshot of the process when this happens.  There are more than a few
>threads with call stacks like the following :
>
>JS_ArenaAllocate
>js_AllocRawStack
>js_Invoke
>JS_CallFunctionValue
>
>There are 2 loops in JS_ArenaAllocate.  But I'm not sure if this is where it
>is stuck.  Has anybody seen or know of any problem related to
>JS_ArenaAllocate?
>  
>

Never seen a problem there.  Are the stacks deep?  What makes you think 
there is a loop, rather than some kind of deadlock?  What are all the 
threads' stacks (at least all the threads with JS engine code on their 
stacks)?

What version of the engine are you using?

/be

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