trouble building libgcj on FreeBSD 2.2.7

Jeff Sturm jsturm@sigma6.com
Mon May 17 08:55:00 GMT 1999


Anthony Green wrote:
> I suppose our two options are
> 
> 1) add a configure test for pthread_cancel, and JvFail in Thread.stop
>    if it isn't provided, or
> 
> 2) simply remove Thread.stop.

Can't do this.  Even though Thread.stop() is deprecated, removing it is
an API change, and the runtime will fail java compatability tests.

1) sounds fine to me.  Or just make it a no-op... my tests show it
doesn't always work anyway (e.g. you can't stop() a thread waiting for a
monitor).

-- 
Jeff Sturm
jsturm@sigma6.com


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