whitehole_spin = 0;
#endif
+ N = 0;
+
+ initGcThreads();
+
IF_DEBUG(gc, statDescribeGens());
RELEASE_SM_LOCK;
if (RtsFlags.GcFlags.maxHeapSize > 0 &&
req_blocks >= RtsFlags.GcFlags.maxHeapSize) {
heapOverflow();
+ // heapOverflow() doesn't exit (see #2592), but we aren't
+ // in a position to do a clean shutdown here: we
+ // either have to allocate the memory or exit now.
+ // Allocating the memory would be bad, because the user
+ // has requested that we not exceed maxHeapSize, so we
+ // just exit.
+ stg_exit(EXIT_HEAPOVERFLOW);
}
bd = allocGroup(req_blocks);