Re: [RFA/GC] redefine thread suspension interface for all platforms

[Andreas Tobler <toa@pop.agri.ch>]

Hi Keith,

Keith Seitz wrote:
> [pardon the top post]
> 
> Ping.
> 
> If anyone has a system other than x86 linux, powerpc darwin, or x86 
> cygwin an can test this patch (it doesn't take much time to rebuild 
> boehm-gc and libjava), I would be very, very grateful...

Ok, I run a build on linux-pcc, hpux-pa. sparc-solaris8 multilib and 
powerpc-apple-darwin8.7.0. All except darwin seem to build boehm-gc 
(hpux-pa is also outstanding but this is due to build times). I have to 
test each but it looks promising.
Darwin fails! Do you have a very ancient darwin os running?
Below you see what I have to do to make it build on darwin-pcc.

The libjava tests will take a while, I'll give u an update.

Andreas

>> Index: include/gc.h
>> ===================================================================
>> --- include/gc.h    (revision 115072)
>> +++ include/gc.h    (working copy)
>> @@ -1036,18 +1036,35 @@
>>  #  include  "gc_local_alloc.h"
>>  #endif
>>  
>> +      /* External thread suspension support. These functions do not
>> +       * implement suspension counts or any other higher-level 
>> abstraction.
>> +       * Threads which have been suspended numerous times will resume 
>> with
>> +       * the very first call to GC_resume_thread.
>> +       */
>> +#if defined(GC_DARWIN_THREADS)

#  include <mach/thread_act.h>

>> +      typedef thread_act_t GC_thread_t;
>> +#elif defined(GC_SOLARIS_PTHREADS)