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Re: WIN-31: boehm-gc don't do SEH in GCC


"Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:
> In particular, I think this is a reliability issue for the GC code.  The
> collector uses VirtualQuery to identify locations that it should scan for
> statically allocated pointer variables.

Hrm, are there any such pointers in libgcj? AFAIK, most of libgcj's
pointers are either on the heap or the stack... I don't think it
stores any data in statically allocated regions.

Could we disable this section of code when boehm-gc is being used for gcj?

  - a

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