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Re: Jacks, gij and the GC

From: Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at gmail dot com>
To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:53:27 +0530
Subject: Re: Jacks, gij and the GC
References: <c686ne$96e$1@sea.gmane.org> <16519.46758.572632.462122@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com>

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Ranjit Mathew writes:
>  > 
>  > In a well-behaving JVM this should print out
>  > "false" after some time.
> 
> Yes, but the amount of time that it might take is unbounded.
> 
>  > 1. Doesn't anyone else see this behaviour on Linux?
> 
> Yes.  Linux can protect aginst this possibility by using "ulimit".
> 
> This is a longstanding gcj bug that can be fixed, but with some
> difficulty.

Thanks a lot, but can you please elaborate on that?

I mean, is this a known behaviour of the Boehm-GC or
some other problem within GCJ?

Thanks,
Ranjit.

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