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Re: testsuite problems on darwin was: [patch] HAVE_LC_MESSAGES f ornatSystem.cc
- From: Andreas Tobler <toa at pop dot agri dot ch>
- To: tromey at redhat dot com
- Cc: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>, 'Jeff Sturm' <jsturm at one-point dot com>, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>, GCC-Java <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:26:22 +0100
- Subject: Re: testsuite problems on darwin was: [patch] HAVE_LC_MESSAGES f ornatSystem.cc
- Organization: zero
- References: <40700B4C02ABD5119F000090278766443BEF00@hplex1.hpl.hp.com> <87vgdsx2yo.fsf@creche.redhat.com>
Tom Tromey wrote:
>
> >>>>> "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.
Hopefully apple manages to get their pthread_sigmask, pthread_kill and
sigwait into a system update until then. They should be fixed now.
Andreas