gcj port to hppa...
Dave,
The gcj port to hppa uses a locking implementation
(libjava/sysdeps/pa/locks.h) which is not signal safe.
The assembly can be interrupted by a signal which if it calls
compare_and_swap again will deadlock. However, I can't tell if this
will ever happen.
The fix for this is to port the lock implementation to use the
light-weight in-kernel compare-and-swap, which is thread-safe and
signal-safe. However, this is only available for Linux.
Does locks.h also need to work for HPUX?
Cheers,
Carlos.
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