libgcj/13

[John Stracke]

The following reply was made to PR libgcj/13; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Stracke <francis@thibault.org>
To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>
Cc: tromey@cygnus.com, java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: libgcj/13
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 15:51:16 -0500

 Bryce McKinlay wrote:
 
 > Even though 2.95.1 is our most recent release, it is very outdated. There are many
 > fixes relating to threads and gc in libgcj cvs and snapshot releases. So far we
 > havn't been able to do a new release because it depends on changes in the compiler.
 >
 > Try a snapshot from ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/java/snapshot
 
 Thanks, I will.
 
 > I don't see what the problem is here. Are you expecting the application to shut down
 > when main() returns?
 
 No, the problem is that the println() doesn't execute until after run() finishes.  The
 order of operations should be "create thread t, t goes to sleep for 100 seconds, main
 thread does println(), eventually t wakes up and the program exits"; instead, it's
 "create thread t, t goes to sleep for 100 seconds, t wakes up and terminates, main
 thread does println() and the program exits".  In essence, there's no multithreading
 going on at all.
 
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