Win32 GC thread support

Wed Sep 24 23:30:00 GMT 2003

On Thursday, Sep 25, 2003, at 06:25 Pacific/Auckland, Boehm, Hans wrote:
> I have a major pending patch (from Ben Hutchings) that fixes some of 
> this as well as removing
> the thread limit. I had been planning to hold off on that, until the 
> 6.4 release of the GC.
> But based on the state of things, I would like to integrate it now, 
> together with some other
> fixes that are probably still needed. This is likely to introduce 
> some instability into 3.4.
> But the current stuff also looks pretty instable to me ...

libgcj on Windows is still rather experimental/alpha from what I 
gather, so I don't see any problem with introducing major patches for 
that code at this stage. Any work is sure to be a net improvement here, 
so this plan sounds fine to me.
Regards
Bryce.