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Re: [committed] Change default for enable_hash_synchronization_default on PA-RISC
- From: Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx dot de>
- To: John David Anglin <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Matthias Klose <doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:55:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: [committed] Change default for enable_hash_synchronization_default on PA-RISC
- References: <200606140151.k5E1puKk005475@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:51:55PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> I've noticed that we get occassional failures of process intensive
> tests in the libjava testsuite (e.g., Process_3). Carlos O'Donell
> indicated that hashing locks might be unsafe because of the special
> way locks are handled in parisc-linux. I've also seen a few failures
> in the libjava suite on hpux. So, I've decided that it would be
> better to be conservative in this regard.
>
> With the patch installed, I've seen no libjava testsuite failures
> on hppa-unknown-linux-gnu on the trunk in several runs.
>
> Committed to trunk. If the patch works out, I will probably backport.
>
> Dave
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> J. David Anglin dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
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>
> 2006-06-13 John David Anglin <dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>
>
> * configure.host (hppa*-*): Set 'enable_hash_synchronization_default' to
> no.
>
> Index: configure.host
> ===================================================================
> --- configure.host (revision 114624)
> +++ configure.host (working copy)
> @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
> hppa*-*)
> sysdeps_dir=pa
> libgcj_interpreter=yes
> - enable_hash_synchronization_default=yes
> + enable_hash_synchronization_default=no
> ;;
> powerpc64*-*)
> sysdeps_dir=powerpc
>
I would really welcome a backport tp 4.1 branch. This would help me a
lot to make GCJ reliable on Debian hppa.
Cheers,
Michael
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