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Re: IA-64 Boehm gc patch
- To: jeff dot sturm at appnet dot com
- Subject: Re: IA-64 Boehm gc patch
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at pasanda dot cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Date: 19 Jun 2000 19:49:59 -0000
- CC: java-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, Hans Boehm <boehm at acm dot org>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:18:30 -0400
> From: Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@appnet.com>
>
> Actually we don't use that read wrapper unless MPROTECT_VDB is defined,
> and last I checked it was disabled in libgcj due to problems with
> linuxthreads.
Well, MPROTECT_VDB is unconditionally defined for IA64. I'm guessing
that there's a good reason for this. I'm not using linuxthreads yet,
so I get to use syscall().
Are you saying that we could just as well use readv() as syscall()?
Andrew.