Item (2) below (logically above) turns out to be a problem in the#

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:00:44 +0000

Item (2) below (logically above) turns out to be a problem in the garbage collector and not at all a library bug. We weren't scavenging signal contexts (and thus registers) when they were on alternate signal stacks. Most threads don't spend a lot of time in alternate signal stacks, so you have to work the GC fairly hard to see this. Fixed now, anyway.

There still seems to be some bug which I haven't found, where the GCing thread will occasionally overcount the number of threads it's signalled to stop, and then sit in a loop indefinitely waiting for a thread that doesn't exist.