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

Wed Jul 5 17:25:00 GMT 2006

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Adam Megacz wrote:
> In the libgcj world, since we spawn all threads, we can put the
> deallocation code at the end of the thread-spawning function. I think
> that's the future fix I was thinking of when I wrote "for now...".

Even though that is the case today because of a limitation in boehm-gc, it 
would be better not to make such assumptions. One day - according to Hans - it 
should be possible to create threads outside of libgcj and still have them 
aall into libgcj and allocate java objects without crashing.
Andi..