If I accidentally have a strategy that loops indefinitely, Eclipse freezes up and the only thing I can do is kill it and restart. Although I understand why this happens, I do not like and this should be fixed :)

Submitted by Zef Hemel on 16 March 2010 at 13:13

On 16 March 2010 at 13:22 Lennart Kats commented:

This is related to issue Spoofax/8: Run builders and on save handler in a separate thread/job.

I haven’t really seen this problem recently though, since I added a loop detector to the repeat(s) strategy (after Maartje first found this issue). Other strategies that cause loops eventually throw a StackOverflowError. So maybe you wrote a special kind of loop? :)


On 16 March 2010 at 13:30 Zef Hemel commented:

Maybe I should just be more patient and wait for the StackOverflowError… :)


On 29 March 2010 at 08:12 Lennart Kats commented:

This gets more annoying when content completion (which runs in the UI thread) has to wait for the loop to finish: Spoofax/60.


On 19 April 2010 at 21:32 Lennart Kats commented:

UI-wise I suppose the console would have to get a “stop” button for this.

I’m still not sure what to do about content completion though: if the content completion thread (i.e., the main UI thread) has to wait for our background thread to finish, Eclipse would still lock up…


On 6 July 2010 at 17:17 Lennart Kats commented:

Implemented in r21089. What remains is some way to avoid loops in reference resolving and content completion (Spoofax/197).


On 6 July 2010 at 17:17 Lennart Kats closed this issue.

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