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From: Julian S. <js...@ac...> - 2002-10-29 22:17:47
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On Tuesday 29 October 2002 8:52 pm, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > I finally got around to implementing the thread lifetime segment (TLS) > algorithm described in "Runtime Checking of Multithreaded Applications > with Visual Threads". The results are interesting. > > For small test programs, the algorithm is clearly working, and it helps > in reducing spurious warnings. Great. > -4265 possible data races found; 0 lock order problems > +4335 possible data races found; 0 lock order problems > > I don't know if this is because there's fewer spurious errors and more > real errors, or whether deferring some early spurious errors allows many > more to appear later. Um, /me is pleased this is progressing, but I don't have any insights to add here. Sorry. J |