[Gc-announce] Gc6.2alpha1

[Andrew Haley]

Boehm, Hans writes:

 > I just released 6.2alpha1.  This is labeled as an alpha release in
 > spite of the fact that it mostly involves fixes for mostly minor
 > bugs.  A couple of those bug fixes are fairly risky, and have
 > received minimal testing.  In particular, this attempts to fix a
 > problem with occasional deadlocks involving the glibc
 > dl_iterate_phdr() call, which required some code restructuring.

Hans,

I wonder if we need to use this in gcc Release 3.3, soon to go gold.
We have seen deadlocks in Java code.  What do you think?

Andrew.