[Mono-dev] Weird threads (?) problem

[Zoltan Varga]

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        Zoltan

On 10/18/06, Bill Seurer <seurer at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I have been working on a port of Mono and have run into a weird problem
> with the 1.1.17.1 code.  mono (the program) works when it is doing the
> bootstrap build of mcs as part of running make (i.e., gnumake) on the whole
> thing.  But if I run mono outside of the make process (either directly or
> via runtime/mono-wrapper) it always throws an assertion:
>
>    ** ERROR **: file threadpool.c: line 990: assertion failed:
> (async_call_klass)
>
> The code that does this is in mono_thread_pool_init:
>    ...
>    async_call_klass = mono_class_from_name (mono_defaults.corlib, "System",
> "MonoAsyncCall");
>    g_assert (async_call_klass);
>
> The assertion is NOT thrown when mono is run from inside make as part of
> the bootstrap process.
>
> I dumped out the tables that mono_class_from_name uses just before the
> above call in mono_thread_pool_init and  "MonoAsyncCall" is there when it
> is run from within make but is not when run from outside.   There were a
> couple of other missing I am not that familiar with how mono does threading
> but could this be some sort of timing problem?  Any ideas?
>
> One more thing, I wrote a makefile that just ran mono on a little test
> program and it fails too.  Perhaps there is something environmental that
> the make process is doing that lets it work?
>
> Thanks!
> --
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