Subj : Threadsafe JS crashes
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : "Andreas Podgurski" <Andreas.Podgurski@MediaGUILD.de>
Date : Sun Jan 12 2003 02:07 am

Hi there!
I have to use the SpiderMonkey engine in a multithreaded environment under
windows XP. For this, I recompiled the engine with JS_THREADSAFE enabled and
added the actual NSPR version 4.2.2. Everything is compiled as debug
executables. Compilation worked fine so far, but after starting the app, it
crashes. Funnily it seems to run some seconds, if started with "run", but
crashes without showing me the crashpoint in the debugger. If I start it in
debug mode, it fails in compiling the script, which is loaded in the thread.
The JS environment is initialized in the main thread and both threads are
assigned with JS_BeginRequest. The compilation fails in js_lock in the
assertion JS_ASSERT(me == CurrentThreadId());. Did I miss something in the
documentation, is this a bug or does anyone has another idea?
Further, I have some extra questions: The non-threaded version of
SpiderMonkey is called js32.lib by default. Is there a default name for the
threadsafe version (e.g. js32t.lib?)? Or should I link the engine directly
into my application in this case?

Thanks in advance,
Andreas Podgurski

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