This is the mail archive of the
java-patches@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the Java project.
Re: Patch: ALL_INTERIOR_POINTERS
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- Cc: java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 12 Feb 2002 10:22:21 -0700
- Subject: Re: Patch: ALL_INTERIOR_POINTERS
- References: <3C689638.9030305@waitaki.otago.ac.nz>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> writes:
Bryce> I just noticed that we have been building the GC with
Bryce> ALL_INTERIOR_POINTERS, probably since the last GC merge. This
Bryce> is what was causing all those pesky "blacklisted block"
Bryce> messages and was causing the heap to grow bigger than it should
Bryce> on some of my test cases. Turning it off should also improve
Bryce> performance.
Thanks.
Bryce> I also took the opportunity to clean out some cruft in boehm.cc
Bryce> - specifically the locking stuff which I don't think we need
Bryce> (_Jv_InitGC is guaranteed to be called single-threaded).
What if libgcj.so is dlopen()ed and then the invocation API is used
from a multithreaded app?
Tom