Thread overview
[Issue 4923] New: immutable module variables are modifiable in non-shared module constructors
Sep 23, 2010
Kasumi Hanazuki
Sep 23, 2010
nfxjfg@gmail.com
Sep 24, 2010
Kasumi Hanazuki
Jan 04, 2011
Jonathan M Davis
Feb 01, 2012
yebblies
September 23, 2010
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4923

           Summary: immutable module variables are modifiable in
                    non-shared module constructors
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: accepts-invalid
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody@puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: k.hanazuki@gmail.com


--- Comment #0 from Kasumi Hanazuki <k.hanazuki@gmail.com> 2010-09-23 12:05:20 PDT ---
DMD v2.049 on Windows

immutable module variables, whose instances are thread-global, are modifiable in thread-local module constructors (static this).

Following example prints different numbers on each iteration.

----

import core.thread, std.random, std.stdio;

immutable int x;

static this() {
  x = unpredictableSeed;
}

void main() {
  for(;;) {
    (new Thread({ })).start;
    Thread.sleep(1_000_000_0);
    writeln(x);
  }
}

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nfxjfg@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #1 from nfxjfg@gmail.com 2010-09-23 16:04:20 PDT ---
Isn't this by design?
Immutable variables are per-thread, and normal module constructors are used to
initialize per-thread data.
You need a way to initialize immutable variables.

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--- Comment #2 from Kasumi Hanazuki <k.hanazuki@gmail.com> 2010-09-23 18:25:30 PDT ---
I have no idea whether the spec states immutable module variables to be
allocated per thread or not,
but currently DMD places them as shared and there seems no way to store them in
TLS.

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Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg@gmx.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg@gmx.com> 2011-01-04 00:26:06 PST ---
immutable variables are implicitly shared. That's part of the point of immutable after all. And given that fact, allowing the initializing of immutable variables in non-shared static constructors is definitely a bug. If we decided that immutable variables were _not_ implicitly shared and made it so that they weren't, then that would fix the problem, but that would on some level defeat the purpose of immutable. So, if we are going to have immutable variables be implicitly shared, then I propose that we disallow the initializing of immutable variables with global scope in non-shared static constructors. That is, all global variables and static variables which are immutable _must_ be initialized in shared static constructors. The non-static local variables would be okay (and I'm not sure that those actually end up being implicitly shared anyway), since they'd be re-created on each function call, but any immutable variable which could be initialized in a static constructor would have to be initialized in a shared static constructor. I don't really see any other viable way to fix this bug if we're going to continue to have immutable variables be implicitly shared.

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yebblies <yebblies@gmail.com> changed:

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         AssignedTo|nobody@puremagic.com        |yebblies@gmail.com
         OS/Version|Windows                     |All


--- Comment #4 from yebblies <yebblies@gmail.com> 2012-02-01 16:57:05 EST ---
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/675

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--- Comment #5 from github-bugzilla@puremagic.com 2013-06-30 15:58:06 PDT ---
Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/f5ed82d638b373efb6c2f0c77d64259df9472964 Merge pull request #1376 from yebblies/issue4923

initialize first thread's message box in a normal static ctor, to work around requirement that thread-local variables cannot be set from a shared static constructor.

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