darwin threads on boehm-gc was Re: Status page

Tue Feb 11 21:29:00 GMT 2003

That's definitely the right plan. Jeff has been trying to get that to work (http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/gc/2003-February/000032.html), but encountered some unexpected pthreads behavior.
Hans
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Tobler [mailto:toa@pop.agri.ch]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:53 AM
> To: Boehm, Hans
> Cc: 'Andrew Haley'; Jeff Sturm; java@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: darwin threads on boehm-gc was Re: Status page
>>> Boehm, Hans wrote:
> > It looks like gcj is built with thread support, but the gc 
> is built without.
> > 
> > I forgot about this particular failure mode. Basically 
> it's crashing because the allocator finds itself running on a 
> different stack from the one it's expecting. It's not 
> surprising that that would happen in this configuration.
> > 
> > This build looks extremely unhealthy, in spite of the mixed 
> test results. The tests pass only because they're mostly 
> single-threaded and don't garbage-collect.
>> Ok, then the result should be, as read on gc-mail list, give OSX the 
> thread support?
> We could at least say from 10.2.3 up ?
>> Andreas
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