locks on X86

Mon Mar 12 16:11:00 GMT 2001

Jeff wrote:
> I can't see how you could modify the code at runtime however... if the
> lock routine is inlined, there could be many occurences of it, and you'd
> have to arrange for it to be placed in a RW segment somehow.

ld.so will already look for libraries in different directories depending on
the target system (i686 -vs- i386, for instance). Perhaps we could convince
Ulrich that adding support for uni- vs multi-processor targets is a good
idea and then simply `multilib' libgcj.so. Maybe it already does this.
Glibc always surprises me!
AG