libgcj/7587: direct threaded interpreter not thread-safe

[Tom Tromey]

The following reply was made to PR libgcj/7587; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: libgcj/7587: direct threaded interpreter not thread-safe
Date: 13 Aug 2002 16:12:12 -0600

 Tom> The direct-threaded interpreter doesn't lock
 Tom> when testing or assigning `prepared'.
 Tom> This isn't thread-safe.
 
 This problem occurs in many places in the direct-threaded code :-(
 In particular it happens whenever we rewrite the compiled bytecode.
 
 Tom