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Re: GCC Release Status (2003-07-04)

From: Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at hotmail dot com>
To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 22:16:24 +0530
Subject: Re: GCC Release Status (2003-07-04)
References: <200307041615.h64GFsww031071@minax.codesourcery.com>

Mark Mitchell wrote:
> PR 10746 is a Java GC bug; are the Java people working on this one?

AFAICT, no one is working on this. It's well nigh
impossible to reproduce this on Linux and takes an
awful long time to happen on Windows on a fairly
fast machine. Also I was able to reproduce this
only on Windows 2000 and not at all on Win98.

Since GCC doesn't support Windows Structured
Exception Handling (SEH) natively, Boehm GC
works much more reliably with MSVC on Windows.
(It can fault while probing on a "legitimately
obtained" page and needs SEH to recover from this.)

This appears to be a regression from 3.2, but
in all likelihood, the 3.3 runtime merely
precipitates the crash "faster" (though it
still takes ages for it to happen).

In short, IMHO this is not really a regression
that should hold 3.3.1 back.

Ranjit.

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Ranjit Mathew          Email: rmathew AT hotmail DOT com

Bangalore, INDIA.      Web: http://ranjitmathew.tripod.com/

References:
- GCC Release Status (2003-07-04)
  - From: Mark Mitchell

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