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Re: Patch: ALL_INTERIOR_POINTERS

Tom Tromey wrote:

>Bryce> I also took the opportunity to clean out some cruft in boehm.cc
>Bryce> - specifically the locking stuff which I don't think we need
>Bryce> (_Jv_InitGC is guaranteed to be called single-threaded).
>
>What if libgcj.so is dlopen()ed and then the invocation API is used
>from a multithreaded app?
>

I don't think that would work anyway. If we wanted to make this safe 
then we'd need locking in _Jv_CreateJavaVM or the invocation API itself 
(which isn't trivial because how do we initialize the lock?)

regards

Bryce.
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