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Re: gcj and awt
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: gcj and awt
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:27:06 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>, John Peterson <pete at knorrinteractive dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
On 19 Apr 2001, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Hans> I've already received a complaint that it's not robust against
> Hans> threads started before the DLL is linked. There's no obvious
> Hans> way to fix it for C/C++ clients, but for Java clients we
> Hans> potentially have other ways to deal with thread creation.
>
> That's true for any thread Java creates. But I think we'll still have
> problems with threads the user creates and then attaches via JNI.
Surely the AttachCurrentThread function could inform GC in that case?
> Some of the thread stuff in JNI is ugly.
No doubt about that.
Jeff