GC with threads on Darwin/OS X

Andreas Tobler toa@pop.agri.ch
Thu Jan 16 05:49:00 GMT 2003


Jeff Sturm wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Andreas Tobler wrote:
> 
>>Here I see some random passes of FileHandleGcTest.exe, but most time it
>>fails. Invoking gdb shows that it has to do with threads.
>>Would be great if you have some patches around to review.
> 
> 
> Hmm... is your libgcj runtime really multithreaded?  Configuring with
> gcc-3.3 sources, I don't get a thread-capable build even with
> --enable-threads.  (Which explains how FileHandleGCTest can fail,
> given that no FinalizerThread would never run.)

Ok, this is an argument I have to verify but I didn't spend more than 
--enable-threads=posix. I concentrate right now on libffi unwind info 
and spend my effort there.

Andreas





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