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Re: testsuite problems on darwin was: [patch] HAVE_LC_MESSAGES f ornatSystem.cc
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Cc: "'Jeff Sturm'" <jsturm at one-point dot com>, Andreas Tobler <toa at pop dot agri dot ch>, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>, GCC-Java <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 23 Jan 2002 12:49:19 -0700
- Subject: Re: testsuite problems on darwin was: [patch] HAVE_LC_MESSAGES f ornatSystem.cc
- References: <40700B4C02ABD5119F000090278766443BEF00@hplex1.hpl.hp.com>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:
Hans> It seemed to be causing more harm than good. I believe the plan
Hans> for gcj is to no longer protect pointer-free pages when it can
Hans> be avoided, to enable incremental GC only if it can be avoided,
Hans> and to avoid making system calls from libgcj that write to the
Hans> pointer-containing heap. The interface to support that is in
Hans> the latest GC alpha releases. In this was gcj should never need
Hans> the wrappers.
Does this mean libgcj will have to make calls like GC_read() or
something like that? Or that we'll somehow only read into
non-protected parts of the heap?
Anyway, I think we should hold off on importing this until after the
3.1 branch is made. That is due Feb 15, I think, so it isn't a long
wait.
Tom