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vish4071
vish4071

Reputation: 5277

Code running fine in debug mode, but stops when run normally (eclipse)

I found this link on SO:

Code not working when running normally, but working in debug (eclipse)

and on seeing the answers, added a Thread.sleep(0) inside my while loop and it works.

The question is "why?". Also, is this problem specific to Eclipse?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 7045

Answers (1)

essa
essa

Reputation: 155

It definitely is not specific to Eclipse. It's a threading issue and can happen in any program using threads that rely on each other. Debug makes the timing issue go away because you are essentially performing a sleep by slowing everything down to walk the code.

If you run debug multiple times with no stops you might find that your failure shows up in a few of the runs.

Making a thread sleep gives the other threads time to "catch up" and complete whatever task the sleeping thread is waiting on.

Upvotes: 9

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