SpotTheDefect[0]

Let’s play a little game of “Spot the Defect”. For the following code, see if you can:

• Figure out what it would output
• Find the bug(s)
• Correct the bugs

(And I’ll do a post next week with the answer)

using System;
using System.Threading;

namespace SpotTheDefect1
{
    class Program
    {
        private static int _x = 0;
        private static Foo _foo = new Foo();
        private static bool _disposed = false;

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Thread thread1 = new Thread(Thread1);
            Thread thread2 = new Thread(Thread2);

            thread1.Start();
            thread2.Start();

            thread1.Join();
            thread2.Join();
        }

        private static void Thread1()
        {
            if (!_disposed)
            {
                _foo.Bar();
            }
        }

        private static void Thread2()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Disposing");
            _disposed = true;
            _foo = null;
        }

        private class Foo
        {
            public void Bar()
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
            }
        }
    }
}

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