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RE: PATCH: Support threads on FreeBSD/i386
- To: "'rittle at labs dot mot dot com'" <rittle at labs dot mot dot com>, tromey at redhat dot com
- Subject: RE: PATCH: Support threads on FreeBSD/i386
- From: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:06:26 -0700
- Cc: java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, boehm at acm dot org
> > Some of the code seems to use FREEBSD_THREADS and some uses
> > GC_FREEBSD_THREADS. Why not just use the latter everywhere?
>
> Would you believe that I attempted to follow the convention in use
> near any particular change...
>
> I will gladly update to use GC_FREEBSD_THREADS everywhere and remove
> all trace of FREEBSD_THREADS. Either way, I will wait until Hans can
> comment.
The current (bad) convention is to use XXXX_THREADS internally and
GC_XXX_THREADS in places where it might conflict with client names. This
evolved from a (worse) situation in which XXX_THREADS was used everywhere.
I have no objection to using GC_XXX_THREADS consistently, and I'll move the
rest of the code in that direction. That may not happen completely very
quickly, in that I assume some client code still defines XXX_THREADS instead
of GC_XXX_THREADS, and that will probably be supported for the next version
or two.
Hans