Some observations on developing with gcj

Sat Aug 9 21:39:00 GMT 2003

Hi,
[Going through some old email]
On Mon, 2003年06月30日 at 20:03, Jeff Sturm wrote:
> On 29 Jun 2003, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:
> >
> > Mark> When closing the program down I wanted to use shutdown
> > Mark> hooks. But they only really work when the program terminates
> > Mark> cleanly. It would be nice if shutdown hooks were also triggered
> > Mark> when the program receives a fatal signal (such as the user
> > Mark> pressing Control-C).
> >
> > Does the JDK do that? This is worthy of a bug report.
>> It does, and at least one software package (Jetty) relies on shutdown
> hooks to cleanly stop a running server via "kill".
>> (I wasn't going to file a PR unless I can't get to it soon.)

And how soon is soon :)
Note that there is a PR for this already.
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7532
There even is some discussion about how to implement it.
Cheers,
Mark