Re: NUnit-gui crashes on stack overflow

Ahh... I missed the hosted part.  

Thanks
Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Poole [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 4:12 PM
To: 'Andy Johnstone'; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Nunit-users] NUnit-gui crashes on stack overflow

Hi Andy, 

> I was running a test in NUnit-gui 2.4.1, and Nunit crashed with a 
> StackOverflowException.  Now, it was my test that caused the 
> exception, but I don't think NUnit should crash.
> Would it be possible for NUnit to unload the AppDomain in this case?  
> 
> >From the StackOverflowException help:  "Note that an
> application that
> >hosts
> the common language runtime (CLR) can specify that the CLR unload the 
> application domain where the stack overflow exception occurs and let 
> the corresponding process continue.
> For more information, see ICLRPolicyManager Interface and Hosting the 
> Common Language Runtime."
> 
> So it seems like this should be possible.  I know I'm not using the 
> latest, but I didn't see anything in the change logs indicating this 
> has changed.

AFAIK, this is not possible without hosting the CLR, which is an entirely
new architecture. If someone knows of a secret setting we can use to get
.NET loader to work that way, I'd be glad to give it a try.

Oddly enough, we can intercept stack overflow in .NET 1.1.

Charlie






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