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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 16 04:21, Reini Urban wrote:
> 2009/7/16 Reini Urban:
> > 2009/7/15 Steven Hartland:
> >> This may or may not help:
> >>
> >> According to VC++ debugger it always dies with:
> >> Unhandled exception at 0x610d089d in perl.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation
> >> reading location 0x00000004.
> >>
> >> According to gdb 0x610d089d = thread.cc:113
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > This looks like almost certainly a simple perl bug. Threads was Jerry Heddens
> > working arena lately, but there are complicated things going in core.
> > If it's easily reproducible best would be to start with a debugging perl
> > and break at the point which tries to read from 0x4.
>
> Sorry, cannot reproduce either
> with the following perls: 5.8.5 5.8.5d 5.8.6 5.8.8 5.10.0 5.10.0d 5.11.0d
> under cygwin-1.5.25 and XP SP2
> and neither under latest cygwin-1.7.0
It's a Windows Server 2008 thingy. MSFT added some code to the OS which
checks for the validity of the SEH chain. The code is not compiled in
to the client OSes, only to the Server OSes. We checked in a patch back
in early 2008 to deal with this mechanism. That's probably the reason
that the C testcase works fine. Apparently Perl adds something which
makes the SEH chain invalid again from 2008's point of view.
Btw., *everybody* can test on Windows Server 2008:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B6E99D4C-A40E-4FD2-A0F7-32212B520F50
Corinna
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