Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Tony Kimball MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15132.28675.544618.75419@spanky.love.edu> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 00:37:07 -0500 X-Face: \h9Jg:Cuivl4S*UP-)gO.6O=T]]@ncM*tn4zG);)lk#4|lqEx=*talx?.Gk,dMQU2)ptPC17cpBzm(l'M|H8BUF1&]dDCxZ.c~Wy6-j,^V1E(NtX$FpkkdnJixsJHE95JlhO 5\M3jh'YiO7KPCn0~W`Ro44_TB@&JuuqRqgPL'0/{):7rU-%.*@/>q?1&Ed Reply-To: alk@pobox.com To: robert.collins@itdomain.com.au Cc: java@gcc.gnu.org, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: boehm-gc .comm problem References: X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Quoth Robert Collins on Tuesday, 5 June: : Might I suggest using pthreads? They are the official threads for : cygwin. I tried that, but the Boehm GC code depends on implementation details of Linux threads, and did not trivially port to cygwin. I'm planning to compile -mno-cygwin anyhow, so pthreads are not really an option unless i am willing to add a dependency on the stand-alone pthreads lib from win32, which I'd rather not do, all other things being equal. In fact, it is the exponential variety of configuration options which make getting a good windows java compiler such a bear to wrestle with. I have made farays into mingw/win32 hosted on linux (i don't recall the specific problems encountered, off the 'top of my head'), cygwin/pthreads hosted on cygwin (which was hopelessly slow), cygwin/pthreads on linux (run-time problems in GC due to implementation-dependencies in the GC code), and now cygwin/win32 hosted on linux (seemingly now encountering obscure .comm bugs). It's hard to know which path to take, and difficult to justify continuing down any one path to overcome an obstacle, when one knows that there are other, untried paths, which might avoid all obstacles and provide a cheap win. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple