GC failure w/ THREAD_LOCAL_ALLOC ?

[Jeff Sturm]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Boehm, Hans wrote:
> You should be able to get the same effect with the GC_IGNORE_GCJ_INFO
> environment variable.  (See boehm-gc/doc/README.environment.)  I would still
> really like to track this down, though.

Thanks; that'll come in handy.

> 2) The mark descriptor was clobbered.  This can be a consequence of a
> premature object collection, due to any sort of collector bug.  Since it's
> most likely to be overwritten by a pointer, this tends to make the object
> look VERY large.

I strongly suspect premature collection.  Another clue is that I'm getting
files closed prematurely at random.  That would happen if the finalizer
ran while the file is in use.

Jeff