Comment 10 for bug 1029629

since the crashes all seem to occur around the same code, and the atoi function is often referenced, let's see whether this is related to the old C API MinGW programs are linked with not being able to handle heavy loads.

try to run the attached threadtest.exe so that it runs for a few minutes, and see if you can get it to crash. the CPU use should be maxed out during the run.
i run it with the following values, feel free to tweak depending on your system: threadtest 50 20000000