testsuite problems on darwin was: [patch] HAVE_LC_MESSAGES f ornatSystem.cc

Wed Jan 23 11:32:00 GMT 2002

>>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:

Hans> It seemed to be causing more harm than good. I believe the plan
Hans> for gcj is to no longer protect pointer-free pages when it can
Hans> be avoided, to enable incremental GC only if it can be avoided,
Hans> and to avoid making system calls from libgcj that write to the
Hans> pointer-containing heap. The interface to support that is in
Hans> the latest GC alpha releases. In this was gcj should never need
Hans> the wrappers.
Does this mean libgcj will have to make calls like GC_read() or
something like that? Or that we'll somehow only read into
non-protected parts of the heap?
Anyway, I think we should hold off on importing this until after the
3.1 branch is made. That is due Feb 15, I think, so it isn't a long
wait.
Tom