[Gc]: libatomic_ops: time to alpha release?

[Boehm, Hans]

> From: Petter Urkedal
> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:35 PM
> To: gc at napali.hpl.hp.com
> Subject: Re: [Gc]: libatomic_ops: time to alpha release?
> 
> On 2009-10-15, Ivan Maidanski wrote:
> > PS. What's about 
> https://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.garbage-collect
> ion.boehmgc/3435 (it seems there are problems in the scripts 
> for OpenBSD and Solaris/shared)?
> 
> # 1 (OpenBSD).  We're missing a case for the thread configuration.
> Someone could try the attached patch, but I don't know if 
> it's the right way to do it.  I basically copied the FreeBSD case.
The only thing I found was

https://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/gc/2008-February/002127.html

My guess would be that this will require a bit more work than Petter's patch.  Bu I may be wrong.  In any case, this isn't a showstopper for a release; I don't think it has ever worked.  If we can't get a volunteer interested in OpenBSD to fix this, could we run the test without threads for now?

> 
> # 3 (Solaris).  The dynamic loader does not find a GCC 
> support library.  This is probably as issue with the 
> installation and runtime environment on the machine, rather 
> than with GC.  It may be fixable with a line in ld.so.conf, 
> or by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or with a Solaris-equivalent.  
> Still I believe the location of libgcc_s should have been 
> hard-coded in the compiler.  Is the compiler moved, or is the 
> -R option causing trouble?
> 
Unfortunately, this is also a bit reminiscent of past experiences.  I have managed to test on Solaris 10 / SPARC, but it has also always needed weird hand-tweaking on my machine due to compiler misinstallation issues.  Since it seems to work with disable-shared, I also don't think this is a show-stopper, so it would be nice to fix the test.

Did we resolve the MacOS issue?  It looks like a recent change could have affected this.  Maybe it was just slightly out of date?  Otherwise the output of nm | grep GC_fail_count on the two files might be interesting.  The version in allchblk.c is declared extern, so I also don't see the problem.

Hans