I have thread. It locks up. If I changed from a bool val it is
using from shared to __gshared it works. I checked the address
inside and outside of the thread and they are different for
shared and same for __gshared.
I thought shared was essentially __gshared with additional
semantics? That a shared variable was the same across all threads?
The only difference is that the thread is a windows CreateThread.
I guess D doesn't know about such threads and hence shared
doesn't extend across to them?
If so, the docs should be updated to mention this.
My code goes something like this:
struct WinThread
{
shared bool isPaused = false;
...
// Windows threaded callback uses isPaused
}
// use isPaused in main thread
// Crashes in WinThread on use expressions involving isPaused.
Checking pointers between the two shows they are different.
changing to _gshared gives the same address of isPaused for both
threads.
