ATTN Windows Users: RFC - GCJ/MinGW and Thread-Safe Exception Handling

Tue Jul 4 16:37:00 GMT 2006

Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> I misunderstood you - I think you meant the "startfile"
> GCC spec string.
>> Thank you for suggesting it. I found a ready-made object file
> like this in "crtmt.o" that the MinGW runtime already provides
> (but GCC doesn't seem to use it AFAICT). This way I do not have
> to worry about where to put this startup object file and how to
> make GCC locate it during linking.
>> The attached patch implements your suggestion and resolves
> the build issue while avoiding the dependency on mingwm10.dll.
>> It was tested via:
>> 1. an i686-pc-linux-gnu to i686-pc-mingw32 cross compiler,
> 2. an i686-pc-mingw32 crossed-native compiler on i686-pc-linux-gnu,
> 3. an i686-pc-linux-gnu native compiler.
>> OK to apply?
>
Do we have a bug about the thread memory leak on Windows? If not, please 
file one. The FIXME comment should also reference this.
Otherwise, this looks fine to me. Thanks.
Bryce