#7970: Thread GC frees roots before thread actually finishes -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: joeyadams | Owner: simonmar Type: bug | Status: closed Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Runtime System | Version: 7.6.3 Resolution: fixed | Keywords: Os: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Failure: Runtime crash | Difficulty: Unknown Testcase: | Blockedby: Blocking: | Related: 7170 -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Comment(by simonmar): Done - it was hard to know where to document this, but I ended up putting a section in `Control.Concurrent` which has other detailed information about the workings of threads. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7970#comment:9 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler