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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:09:34 +0100
From:      Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>
To:        Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
Cc:        freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Plugin Status
Message-ID:  <3C05609E.32FA60B2@bowtie.nl>
References:  <15364.5438.584762.332093@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <20011128010641.A21751@gnuppy>

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Bill Huey wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:35:42PM -0800, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> > With Bill's tenative changes for native threads, I can get the plugin to
> > load, but it keeps dieing in various Motif/Xt locations.  I fixed one
> > blatant Motif error, dereferencing a null pointer, but there are many
> > obvious null-pointer dereferences in the same physical file.  I did not
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I just commited a fix for a native threading thinko in recording GC
> registers and everything that I've tested under Appletviewer runs perfectly
> now. I had problems with some jars, but I still need to test that out.
> 
> The pthreads race still exist and I'm thinking about creating a new
> pthreads scheduler queue for dealing with suspended threads properly. That
> race will still likely trigger under high threading count/load. It
> was more likely to hit with the old threading code since I was doing an
> O(n^2) complexity search for the pthread struct in question and not
> realizing that I already had it available for general GC dorkery.
> 
> (/me mailed that version to Joe just now)
> 
> It's been fantastic that this is working so well now.
> 
> ;-)
> 

Great work Bill! 

Regards,
Marc.

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