libgcj/289

[Tom Tromey]

The following reply was made to PR libgcj/289; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>
Cc: java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: libgcj/289
Date: 13 Sep 2000 09:05:00 -0600

 Bryce> Interesting. It seems that in the JDK, a join() on a thread
 Bryce> that throws an unchecked exception never returns. This
 Bryce> behaviour seems reasonable, I guess, as a thread that throws an
 Bryce> exception could potentially leave objects in an unstable
 Bryce> state. This is consistent across several different JDK versions
 Bryce> (and combinations of green/native threads), so perhaps we
 Bryce> should look at duplicating it.
 
 This behavior seems broken to me.  If I'm trying to join() a thread, I
 probably don't care how the thread exited -- just that it did.  If we
 follow the Sun implementation then a join() of an
 abnormally-terminated thread will just cause the runtime to hang.
 This seems losing.
 
 Tom