Hi,
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 12:17:33AM +1200, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> I tried your TimerTest on the current gcj/libgcj and it seems to work
> perfectly on my SMP ia32 linux machine.
>
> Is your libgcj older than 2000-03-27? I rewrote much of libgcj's posix-threads
> code then. Before that, the wait/notify mechanism was mostly broken.
It is probably older. I use the version that comes with Debian frozen potato.
> > I have not yet checked in my beginning of java/util/jar and
> > java/net/URLClassLoader that I will clean up next and possibly merge with
> > the libgcj ones.
>
> Cool. libgcj's URLClassLoader (in fact a lot of our classloader stuff) is
> rather ugly. I for one would love to see it merged/replaced with classpath's
> implementations.
Claspath does have 1.2 SecureClassLoader, which is the super class of
URLClassLoader. But java.lang.ClassLoader does not yet do all the 1.2 stuff.
So we also need to add that (and some of it needs JVM support and that is
not really my cup of tea).
Cheers,
Mark
