[RFA/GC] redefine thread suspension interface for all platforms

[Andreas Tobler]

Andreas Tobler wrote:
> Hi Keith,
> 
> Keith Seitz wrote:
>> [pardon the top post]
>>
>> Ping.
>>
>> If anyone has a system other than x86 linux, powerpc darwin, or x86 
>> cygwin an can test this patch (it doesn't take much time to rebuild 
>> boehm-gc and libjava), I would be very, very grateful...
> 
> Ok, I run a build on linux-pcc, hpux-pa. sparc-solaris8 multilib and 
> powerpc-apple-darwin8.7.0. All except darwin seem to build boehm-gc 
> (hpux-pa is also outstanding but this is due to build times). I have to 
> test each but it looks promising.
> Darwin fails! Do you have a very ancient darwin os running?
> Below you see what I have to do to make it build on darwin-pcc.
> 
> The libjava tests will take a while, I'll give u an update.

The test are through and it looks ok everywhere. (ppc-linux, 
sparc-solaris8, hpux-pa and powerpc-darwin)

Andreas