JvAttachCurrentThread doesn't seem to call GC_new_thread

Mon Jan 26 21:22:00 GMT 2004

I got a bug report from a client about aborting with "Collecting from 
unknown thread", which is in GC_push_all_stacks in win32_threads.c. 
This was from a native thread that he called JvAttachCurrentThread on.
So I looked at the code trying to understand what should happen. It 
looks to me that JvAttachCurrentThread needs to call GC_new_thread to 
register itself.
I also looks like GC_new_thread is only called by GC_thr_init and 
GC_start_routine. GC_thr_init is called once when the GC system is 
initialized, and it only calls GC_new_thread once on the current thread. 
GC_start_routine is called when starting a new thread (in the pthread 
case by pthread_create).
It looks to me like we don't handle the case of a native thread that is 
not the initial thread. This applies to both pthreads (Posix) and Win32.
Am I missing something? Or is this a known limitation? Would it be 
difficult to fix? Obviously some locking is needed.
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