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

Wed Jan 23 12:07:00 GMT 2002

Tom Tromey wrote:
>> >>>>> "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.

Hopefully apple manages to get their pthread_sigmask, pthread_kill and
sigwait into a system update until then. They should be fixed now.
Andreas