Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why don't my OS threads terminate?

On 25 February 2011 19:10, Bas van Dijk wrote:

On 25 February 2011 18:27, sclv wrote:

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Bas van Dijk-2 wrote:

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I believe the OS threads are created by my levmar library. This library uses bindings-levmar[4] which is a binding to a C library. bindings-levmar uses safe FFI calls because the levmar C procedures are reentrant (they need to call back into Haskell to execute the model function). I believe the RTS creates an OS thread for each safe FFI call.

Sounds like #4262: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4262

(Should be fixed in head)

That looks exactly like my problem. I will try it out with ghc head on monday.

In ghc-HEAD (7.1.20110227) the bug is fixed, great! The bug still appears in ghc-7.0.2-rc2, so I assume the patch in #4262 was not merged in that release. Will it be merged into the upcoming ghc-7.0.2? Regards, Bas