Re: Why is this assertion being triggered?
thebad1 wrote:
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
thebad1 wrote:
no problem a second time. Also if I rerun the code again, the assertion
is triggered but with a different value of tRating.
Given those symptoms, I would look VERY closely at whatever is supposed
to synchronize accesses and updates to tRating.
It is behaving exactly like a variable that is being updated from at
least one other thread while the assertion executes, so that it is a NaN
when the test is done, but something else when it is converted to String
for concatenation.
This is what's really causing my brain to hurt, as it's just a simple
loop in a main method, there's no fun and games or threads or suchlike.
I'm not sure how significant this is; but the exact same class running
with the same params, "-Xmx758m -ea" and the same datafiles, on a
RHELinux ES 3 box with jdk-1.6.0-fcs does not hit these assertions.
Again, different behavior on different systems is very typical of
unsynchronized multi-threaded access.
Are you sure there isn't even a tiny little invokeLater :-)
How about a short, simple, self-contained example?
Patricia
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