deadlock detection

[Jeff Sturm]

On 4 Sep 2003, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Jacob> Does anyone know of any feature in the current vm or furtur
> Jacob> plans for the vm to support any type of deadlock detection?
> Jacob> This is probably more along the lines of development, but I
> Jacob> thought someone may have done something in the form of a patch.
>
> I haven't heard of anybody doing this.

Nor have I, but I'll vouch for its utility.  Deadlock detection in
Sun's VM has saved me considerable debugging effort more than once.

Jeff