Jacks, gij and the GC

Thu Apr 22 12:24:00 GMT 2004

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Ranjit Mathew writes:
> > 
> > In a well-behaving JVM this should print out
> > "false" after some time.
>> Yes, but the amount of time that it might take is unbounded.
>> > 1. Doesn't anyone else see this behaviour on Linux?
>> Yes. Linux can protect aginst this possibility by using "ulimit".
>> This is a longstanding gcj bug that can be fixed, but with some
> difficulty.

Thanks a lot, but can you please elaborate on that?
I mean, is this a known behaviour of the Boehm-GC or
some other problem within GCJ?
Thanks,
Ranjit.
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