Re: [Boost-users] Crash in boost::thread::sleep(xt) (boost 1.42 on Windows 32 bit)

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Crash in boost::thread::sleep(xt) (boost 1.42 on Windows 32 bit)
From: Ovanes Markarian (om_boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-03-26 17:39:02

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Ovanes Markarian <om_boost_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Sorry, that I did not re-read your post, I forget such things too fast ;)
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Arno <arno.schaefer_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> > if that is not the reason, I would run it in the debugger and enable the
>> > debugger to stop whenever an exception is thrown or a signal is raised.
>>
>> That's exactly what I have done, but the problem is that the thread
>> disapears
>> without any notice, that means also if all exceptions are activated.
>
>
> Ok, my suggestion would be:
>  Create a dummy class with destructor and initialize it as a  thread-local
> storage. Hopefully, the destructor is going to be called when the thread is
> terminated. Now either make some logging (from the dtor) or put a
> break-point into the destructor and see what is the context when the
> storage is destroyed.
>
> > Can you reproduce a minimal example to be posted here. I know it might be
>> > hard to do when dealing with MT-contexts.
>>
>> That's what I have written, it happen only in the whole context and is not
>> reproducible in a smaler set.
>>
>> regards
>> Arno
>>
>
> Regards,
> Ovanes
>

Additionally, I would try to use another compiler, e.g. VC 10. It is
possible that there is a compiler bug, but more likely you might run in the
threading error in a different way, which will give you more hints where
the error might come from.

Regards,
Ovanes