Supporting pthreads in libjava on Tru64 UNIX

Tue Jul 22 10:19:00 GMT 2003

Hans Boehm writes:
> I applied your patch to my tree with some additional tests around _PTHREAD_USE_MANGLED_NAMES to check for
> GC_OSF1_THREADS. It is unlikely that would be defined elsewhere. But I'm not positive it isn't.
> And it makes it much clearer (at least to me) why the code is there.
>> Does that sound right to you?

Sure. The macro name seemed unique enough that no additional guard was
needed, but you are certainly right about the documention value of
GC_OSF1_THREADS. It may even be that some other system has (or will)
use/port Compaq's DECthreads implementation, so better safe than sorry.
> I'll apply the same modification to the gcc patch. I will also test that version a little on other platforms, since it integrates larger pieces of gc6.2.

Fine, thanks.
	Rainer