gtk peers

Mon Jul 28 22:56:00 GMT 2003

Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@redhat.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2003年07月28日 at 09:02, Brian Jones wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > I know some folks are working on the gtk peers. I think we'd like to
> > make the code enabled with --enable-portable-native-sync the default
> > if possible. Any problems with doing this? 
> > This build option may
> > only exist in classpath, not sure about gcj.
> > 
>> The build option is not in libgcj, but the ifdef'd code is. libgcj
> currently uses the ifdef branch that you want to remove, where
> portable-native-sync is disabled.
>> I just tested the libgcj peers with the enable-portable-native-sync
> ifdef branch, and I get thread initialization errors:
>> GThread-ERROR **: The supplied thread function vector is invalid.
> aborting...
> Aborted
>> I need to look at threading anyway for gcjwebplugin, so I'll try to
> solve that problem. For now though, we need to leave the ifdef as it
> is.

Okay. I think that some folks on the jikesrvm team contributed the
ifdef'd code enabled by the native-sync option. It was to allow the
peers/awt to work with their JVM and supposedly had benefits of using
the JVM threading mechanism.
Brian
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Brian Jones <cbj@gnu.org>