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Re: RFA: Objective-C patch fixing libobjc/9969
Nicola Pero wrote:
Ok to apply (tested, no regressions, and gnustep-base seems to be still
working fine with this change) ?
Wed May 14 11:25:41 2003 Nicola Pero <n.pero@mi.flashnet.it>
libobjc/9969
* sendmsg.c (get_imp): Fixed threading problem which might cause
in extremely rare cases to return the forward method
implementation instead of the actual method when the dispatch
table was being installed by a concurrent thread. Fixed threading
problem which might cause in extremely rare cases the dispatch
table to be installed twice - with a small memory leak - in
similar situations. This change adds some overhead to messaging
whenever a forward implementation is returned.
(__objc_responds_to): Similar fixes.
(objc_msg_lookup): Similar fixes.
This just seems like it lowers the odds of messing up without
really solving the problem. The rule of thumb is that a
concurrent thread can kick in between any pair of instructions,
and the "if (class->dtable == __objc_uninstalled_dtable)" will
be several instructions usually. (That's why atomic test-and-set
instructions are so important.)
Shouldn't the runtime mutex be locking out dispatch table installs
by other threads?
Stan