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Re: perl threads on 2008 R2 64bit = crash ( was: perl 5.10 threads on 1.5.25 = instant crash )


On Jul 17 15:23, Dave Korn wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Do we have to take other handlers than the OS handlers and the Cygwin
> > handlers into account?  Cygwin apps don't install SEH handlers, do
> > they?  Or do C++ apps?
> 
>   Nope, they don't, but that will probably not be the case forever, there are
> (long-term) moves afoot to get SEH support into the compiler.  However, we're
> in early startup-and-init here; we don't need to worry about what the
> application will do once it finally gets going.

Sorry, but AFAICS we are not in early startup-and-init.  The threads.dll
library is a run-time loaded DLL via dlopen due to the

  use threads;

statement in the script.  This situation can occur at any point
during the runtime of an application.


Corinna

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