Re: [RFA/GC] redefine thread suspension interface for all platforms

[Andreas Tobler <toa at pop dot agri dot ch>]

Hi Keith,

Keith Seitz wrote:
> [pardon the top post]
>
> Ping.
>
> If anyone has a system other than x86 linux, powerpc darwin, or x86 
> cygwin an can test this patch (it doesn't take much time to rebuild 
> boehm-gc and libjava), I would be very, very grateful...

Ok, I run a build on linux-pcc, hpux-pa. sparc-solaris8 multilib and 
powerpc-apple-darwin8.7.0. All except darwin seem to build boehm-gc 
(hpux-pa is also outstanding but this is due to build times). I have to 
test each but it looks promising.
Darwin fails! Do you have a very ancient darwin os running?
Below you see what I have to do to make it build on darwin-pcc.

The libjava tests will take a while, I'll give u an update.

Andreas

> > Index: include/gc.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- include/gc.h    (revision 115072)
> > +++ include/gc.h    (working copy)
> > @@ -1036,18 +1036,35 @@
> >  #  include  "gc_local_alloc.h"
> >  #endif
> >  
> > +      /* External thread suspension support. These functions do not
> > +       * implement suspension counts or any other higher-level 
> > abstraction.
> > +       * Threads which have been suspended numerous times will resume 
> > with
> > +       * the very first call to GC_resume_thread.
> > +       */
> > +#if defined(GC_DARWIN_THREADS)

#  include <mach/thread_act.h>

> > +      typedef thread_act_t GC_thread_t;
> > +#elif defined(GC_SOLARIS_PTHREADS)