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From: dick.r.chiang@gmail.com
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 36609@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36609: 27.0.50; Possible race-condition in threading implementation
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:36:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czstmmgi.fsf@dick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y2bhbw14.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:04:55 +0300")

EZ> Is it, really?

Yes.  While I can't claim to be any more knowledgeable, the naivete of someone
protesting thread atomicity based on word-size is stunningly apparent.

EZ> And you can show a GDB backtrace with values of the variable that supports
EZ> that?

Alas I cannot.  My gdb skills are less impressive in the presence of threads,
and heisenbugs of this nature tend to mysteriously disappear when gdb's
leisurely pace gives caches ample time to flush.

I mentioned earlier I could not reproduce my MRE failure when I merely inserted
print statements.

My patch isn't quite as studied as Pip Cet's (my patch merely skirts locking
the glib unless you're main-thread-p), but it does fix OP and, unlike the
current state of the code, doesn't admit glaring theoretical flaws, even
though you seem to think those flaws could never materialize in practice
despite evidence (gdb-less as it is) to the contrary.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-10 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-11 20:51 bug#36609: 27.0.50; Possible race-condition in threading implementation Andreas Politz
2019-07-12  7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12  8:05   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12  9:02 ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 12:42   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 12:57     ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 13:31       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 13:51         ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 15:05           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 18:06             ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 18:27               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 18:34                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 19:24                   ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 19:57                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-13 14:37                       ` Pip Cet
2019-07-13 15:03                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-13 15:13                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-13 15:54                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-13 15:57                             ` Pip Cet
2019-07-13 16:02                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-13 18:17                                 ` Pip Cet
2020-08-21 12:57                                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-13 15:04                         ` Andreas Politz
2019-07-12 12:44   ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 12:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 13:40       ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 13:51         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 14:34           ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 15:02             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 19:30               ` Pip Cet
2019-07-13  6:50                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-06 15:50 ` dick.r.chiang
     [not found] ` <87fsxv8182.fsf@dick>
2021-06-06 16:35   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-06 19:10     ` dick.r.chiang
2021-06-06 19:27       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-09 21:40         ` dick.r.chiang
2021-06-10  6:46           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 11:52             ` dick.r.chiang
2021-06-10 14:18               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 14:55                 ` dick.r.chiang
2021-06-10 15:04                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 21:36                     ` dick.r.chiang [this message]
2021-06-11  6:00                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-19 17:53                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-19 19:14                           ` dick.r.chiang
2021-06-19 19:18                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-19 21:12                               ` dick.r.chiang
2021-06-20 11:39                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-20 14:01                                   ` dick.r.chiang
2021-06-20 15:53                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 13:54                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 15:35                 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-06-10 15:39                   ` Eli Zaretskii

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