RE: Is the boehm GC supported under FreeBSD?

["Boehm, Hans" <hans dot boehm at hp dot com>]

This didn't immediately sound like a GC bug to me, since I don't immediately
see how calling the class loader for the same class would have a direct
impact on the GC.  But it might be.

There have been a number of recent FreeBSD-specific patches to the upstream
collector.  I don't normally test on FreeBSD, so I'm not sure how
important they were.  If you look at

http://search.gmane.org/?query=FreeBSD&group=gmane.comp.programming.garbage-collection.boehmgc

you'll get some idea of the state of things and what's changed.

Hans

> -----Original Message-----
> From: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org 
> [mailto:java-owner@gcc.gnu.org]On Behalf Of
> Tom Tromey
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 4:38 PM
> To: Jost Boekemeier
> Cc: java@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Is the boehm GC supported under FreeBSD?
> 
> 
> >>>>> "Jost" == Jost Boekemeier <jost2345@yahoo.de> writes:
> 
> Jost> I have a long running test which loads classes from a private
> Jost> classloader.  After some time I it is called for the 
> same class and then
> Jost> crashes.  I don't think there's an issue with the 
> classloader, because I
> Jost> get the same behaviour with the system classloader.  
> GCC is 3.3.3, which
> Jost> runs this test well on Linux.
> 
> I didn't want you go to answer-less, even though the answer is that I
> don't know.  Hans may know more.  Or you could look at a more recent
> GC (say, from gcc cvs) and see if any FreeBSD bug fixes look like they
> may affect your code.
> 
> Tom
>