Small example of livelock regression in garbage collector forGCJ 3.3 under W

[Ranjit Mathew]

>  > > So, the only libgcj that needs to be built is by the linux->mingw
>  > > compiler, and that libgcj must be built with the correct libgcj.spec.
>  > > Everything should work fine, modulo bugs in the configury.  I guess
>  > > it's just a matter of trying it.
>  > 
>  > I tried this last night and as expected
>  > "libjava/configure.host" is not touched if I give
>  > "--disable-libgcj" while building the cross GCJ.
>  > 
>  > So there's no libgcj.spec created that contains
>  > the necessary flags and hence the crossed-native
>  > libgcj is built incorrectly.
> 
> So what libgcj.spec does the compiler use while building libgcj?  This
> sounds totally screwy.

None. :-/

Is it *that* terrible?

Ranjit.

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