• Michael (13/13) Mar 26 2004 Er, I did notice one other issue besides the unusual behavior of -A. It ...
• Walter (8/19) Mar 26 2004 seems

Michael <Michael_member pathlink.com> writes:

Er, I did notice one other issue besides the unusual behavior of -A. It seems
the Digital Mars linker has a deadlock issue when run on multiprocessor
machines. Every once in a while (perhaps 1 link out of 20), the linker simply
hangs and makes no progress. I've left the linker running sometimes 15 minutes
before breaking out (where normally the link takes 3 seconds).

My test box is a 2 CPU Xeon Pentium III. I've not tested on a uniprocessor box,
but I do suspect a race condition somewhere due to the non-deterministic
behavior I'm seeing.

It's not a problem that can't be worked around, although it is annoying having
to break the link and restart.

Has anyone else seen this behavior?

Thanks,
/Michael

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

"Michael" <Michael_member pathlink.com> wrote in message
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 Er, I did notice one other issue besides the unusual behavior of -A. It

seems
 the Digital Mars linker has a deadlock issue when run on multiprocessor
 machines. Every once in a while (perhaps 1 link out of 20), the linker

simply
 hangs and makes no progress. I've left the linker running sometimes 15

minutes
 before breaking out (where normally the link takes 3 seconds).

 My test box is a 2 CPU Xeon Pentium III. I've not tested on a uniprocessor

box,
 but I do suspect a race condition somewhere due to the non-deterministic
 behavior I'm seeing.

 It's not a problem that can't be worked around, although it is annoying

having
 to break the link and restart.

 Has anyone else seen this behavior?

Yes, it's a known bug.