[Gc] Re: gcj 4.6 on OpenBSD/x86

[Kurt Miller]

Hi Ivan,

Sorry about the long delay. Attached please find a diff that update's
OpenBSD's support to handle our kernel based threads since 5.2 release
and maintains the prior user-land threads code for pre 5.2.

A similar diff for 7.2d has been tested on the following OpenBSD
architectures: i386, amd64, sparc64, macppc, hppa, alpha.

Please consider incorporating this diff into your git repository.

Thank you,
-Kurt


On 10/23/12 15:24, Ivan Maidanski wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
> 
> I typically try to care about compatibility with old versions of targets
> at least at source level.
> If you know that a certain change, would break support of old OpenBSD
> releases, please put the code into #ifdef block.
> But, of course, it is not needed to retest the code on that old OS
> releases. And, it's acceptable to assume newer OpenBSD by default.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Regards,
> Ivan
> 
> Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:11:01 -0400 Kurt Miller <kurt at intricatesoftware.com>:
> 
>     Thanks. I have the current source tree. Question for you. Do you
>     care to support OpenBSD < 5.2 release or can we set the minimum
>     supported version to 5.2?
> 
>     In 5.2 we elminiated the userland threads model and replaced it with
>     a 1-1 kernel supported thread model. We also eliminated some
>     non-portable functions in 5.2. My preference is to just support 5.2
>     and up since userland thread model is gone for good and will not be
>     mantained by any OpenBSD developer now. i.e. pre 5.2 support will
>     code rot due to lack of testing.
> 
>     Thanks,
>     -Kurt
> 
>     On Friday 19 October 2012 04:32:09 pm Ivan Maidanski wrote:
>     > Hi Kurt,
>     >
>     > Please checkout master from https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc and
>     make a pull request.
>     > Thank you.
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     > Ivan
>     >
>     > Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:44:19 -0400 Kurt Miller
>     <kurt at intricatesoftware.com
>     <sentmsg?compose&To=kurt at intricatesoftware.com>>:
>     > >
>     > >
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>     >
>     > >Most likely yes. When I originally worked on thread support for
>     gc on OpenBSD we had user-threads and I used gross hacks to get the
>     stack pointer. Now that OpenBSD has kernel supported threads, I have
>     removed the hacks and the patches to support OpenBSD are clean.
>     > >
>     > >
>     > I can port them to upstream now. Is this the correct place for
>     upstream code?
>     > >
>     > >http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
>     > >
>     > >
>     > Thanks,
>     > >
>     > -Kurt
>     > >
>     > >
>     > On Oct 16, 2012, at 1:44 AM, "Boehm, Hans" <hans.boehm at hp.com
>     <sentmsg?compose&To=hans.boehm at hp.com>> wrote:
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > Thanks!
>     > >
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>     > >
>     > > Have you checked whether the problem also exists in the upstream
>     version?
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > Hans
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >> -----Original Message-----
>     > >
>     > >> From: Kurt Miller [mailto:kurt at intricatesoftware.com]
>     > >
>     > >> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 4:27 AM
>     > >
>     > >> To: Boehm, Hans
>     > >
>     > >> Cc: java at gcc.gnu.org <sentmsg?compose&To=java at gcc.gnu.org>
>     > >
>     > >> Subject: Re: gcj 4.6 on OpenBSD/x86
>     > >
>     > >>
>     > >
>     > >> I found the root cause was OpenBSD was missing a #define for
>     > >
>     > >> HAVE_DL_ITERATE_PHDR. gcj is working now on both x86/x86-64
>     > >
>     > >> on OpenBSD. Thanks for the help.
>     > >
>     > >>
>     > >
>     > >> -Kurt
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