darwin threads on boehm-gc was Re: Status page

Andreas Tobler toa@pop.agri.ch
Tue Feb 11 19:54:00 GMT 2003


Boehm, Hans wrote:
> It looks like gcj is built with thread support, but the gc is built without.
> 
> I forgot about this particular failure mode.  Basically it's crashing because the allocator finds itself running on a different stack from the one it's expecting.  It's not surprising that that would happen in this configuration.
> 
> This build looks extremely unhealthy, in spite of the mixed test results.  The tests pass only because they're mostly single-threaded and don't garbage-collect.

Ok, then the result should be, as read on gc-mail list, give OSX the 
thread support?
We could at least say from 10.2.3 up ?

Andreas





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