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Re: CNI threads and garbage collection on FC4
- From: Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>
- To: Andi Vajda <andi at osafoundation dot org>
- Cc: Ryan Boder <icanoop at bitwiser dot org>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:39:02 -0400
- Subject: Re: CNI threads and garbage collection on FC4
- References: <1125084337.32468.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <Pine.OSX.4.63.0508261433450.20284@zoe.local>
Andi Vajda wrote:
You cannot create a thread and pass it to java after the fact. The gc
subsystem doesn't support that, yet. Hans Boehm, its author, intends
to support this eventually....
Yes, this is a pretty serious problem for implementing thread attaching,
unfortunately. We should mention it the CNI documentation. There is a
bug for this here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13212
Bryce