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Re: Segment Register thread descriptor (was Re: Jv_AllocBytesChecked)
- To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>
- Subject: Re: Segment Register thread descriptor (was Re: Jv_AllocBytesChecked)
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: 03 Jan 2001 17:57:31 -0700
- Cc: Jeff Sturm <jeff dot sturm at appnet dot com>, "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>, "'java-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com'" <java-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
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- Reply-To: tromey at redhat dot com
Bryce> Could we just grab the entire linuxthreads sysdeps directory
Bryce> and stick it in libjava to get its compare_and_swap definitions
Bryce> and THREAD_SELF macros? Then we won't even need to worry about
Bryce> writing special code for different architectures - at least for
Bryce> linux platforms.
The only concerns I have are licensing and divergence (== maintenance).
Tom