Re: [RFA] Boehm GC support addition for debugging

[Marco Trudel <mtrudel at gmx dot ch>]

I already sent a patch for that to the java-patches list...


Andreas Tobler wrote:
> Andrew Pinski wrote:
> > On Jun 26, 2006, at 10:02 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> >
> > > On Jun 26, 2006, at 9:01 AM, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> > >
> > > > Otherwise, this is fine.
> > >
> > > No it is not, it broke bootstrap on powerpc-darwin:
> >
> > Did you look when the function would have been declared.
> >  From gc.h:
> >
> > #if defined(GC_PTHREADS) && !defined(GC_SOLARIS_THREADS) \
> >   && !defined(GC_WIN32_THREADS) && !defined(GC_DARWIN_THREADS)
> > GC_API void GC_suspend_thread GC_PROTO((pthread_t));
> > GC_API void GC_resume_thread GC_PROTO((pthread_t));
> > #endif
> >
> > So this is not just Darwin but also Windows and maybe solaris too.
>
> Solaris too. :(
>
> I'd wish being a bit more careful with such patches.
> Everyone can ask for RFT and I'll happily test on my farm as time permits.
>
> Andreas
>
> P.S, Me being a _spare_ time contributor....