[e-lang] Strange lock-ups with simple E program

[Thomas Leonard]

Hi,

I was trying to find out why my E program failed from time to time, and eventually simplified it to this:


pragma.syntax("0.9")

def seedVatAuthor := <elang:interp.seedVatAuthor>
def seedVat := seedVatAuthor(<unsafe>)

def obj := seedVat.run("def test() { return null }")[0]

var i := 0
def stress() {
	i += 1
	if (i < 10 || (i % 100) == 0) { println(`i: $i`) }
	when (obj<-()) -> { stress() }
}

stress()
interp.blockAtTop()


It runs for a while, but then it hangs (after printing "i: 11800", "i:
2300" and "i: 36900" on my last few runs).

While simplifying it, I quite often also got these:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed: OldFarRef may only be smashed: <Far
ref>

(I see from the svn logs that an "OldFarRef" is just a normal far ref)

Any hints on how to debug this? I was using e.version=0.9.2a (according
to the eprops file), but I also tried with svn. That also hangs, but
sometimes prints:

error: problem: <ViciousCycleException: Caught in a forwarding loop>

Other times, it doesn't print anything.

Thanks,


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