Subj : Re: possible infinite loop?
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Thu Sep 04 2003 10:31 pm

Edward Chan wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>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?
>  
>

This turned out to be yetanother case (see 
news://news.mozilla.org:119/bdq7tc$dcb4@ripley.netscape.com) of using 
the engine from multiple threads without defining JS_THREADSAFE.

/be

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