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RE: gcj and awt
- To: "'Jeff Sturm'" <jsturm at one-point dot com>, John Peterson <pete at knorrinteractive dot com>
- Subject: RE: gcj and awt
- From: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:03:08 -0700
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Sturm [mailto:jsturm@one-point.com]
> In the case of win32 and gcj, the garbage collector will
> probably not work correctly unless it is a DLL, since it hooks into
> DllMain().
It currently does that in the multithreaded configuration, primarily to
intercept thread creation. That's probably not the right thing to do once
the invocation API is in place. I've already received a complaint that it's
not robust against threads started before the DLL is linked. There's no
obvious way to fix it for C/C++ clients, but for Java clients we potentially
have other ways to deal with thread creation.
Hans