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Re: Small example of livelock regression in garbage collector forGCJ 3.3 under Win32
Ranjit Mathew writes:
> >>You need -fuse-divide-subroutine and -fcheck-references. Ranjit ahd a
> >>look at using Windows' structured exception handling to cope with
> >>these problems, but I don't think that it's done yet.
>
> Andrew, if I understand this correctly, you are suggesting that
> we use these options for the time being till such a time
> that we can fix the SEH stuff.
>
> These will make things a bit slower, but keep it correct:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcj/Configure-time-Options.html
>
> Right?
Indeed. It looks to me like mingw picks up the configure options from
i686-*. We need to make this a little more finely grained with a
separate entry for Linux and mingw.
> Mohan, perhaps you can rebuild your GCJ with the
> flags Andrew suggests for the time being so that we
> can avoid this nasty situation. (BTW, your snapshot
> shows a version number of "3.3.1 prerelease" instead
> of "3.3", probably because you did a CVS checkout from
> the 3.3 branch instead of building from the 3.3
> tarballs.)
Please also submit a patch for configure.host that does the right thing.
Andrew.