Re: Objective-C threads

2002-11-24 Thread Chad David
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 05:06:05PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Chad David wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:19:43AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: Perhaps because maintaining them in the FreeBSD repo might be the wrong place. To answer your other questiion -- because a change to fix one

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-11-24 Thread Terry Lambert
[ ... Objective C ... ] Chad David wrote: And I thought this thread was dead :). It just showed up in the inbox last night; it must have been stuck in your mail server. Sorry about that. I don't really feel a need to convince. If people are too busy (or just do not care) to maintain ObjC

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-31 Thread Chad David
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:47:02PM -0600, Loren James Rittle wrote: Use thr-objc not thr-posix. thr-objc maps to the gcc generic thread abstration layer and is better supported these days. It will also correctly disable overhead related to threading when a program is single-threaded using

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-31 Thread Loren James Rittle
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chad David[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Use thr-objc not thr-posix. thr-objc maps to the gcc generic thread abstration layer and is better supported these days. It will also correctly disable overhead related to threading when a program is single-threaded using

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:52:56PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: That said, if you want to make it work for you, I'm behind you 100%: I think any changes you want to make are OK; they can always be backed out, if anyone starts complaining about them breaking things, so I think it's kind of silly

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread Terry Lambert
David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:52:56PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: That said, if you want to make it work for you, I'm behind you 100%: I think any changes you want to make are OK; they can always be backed out, if anyone starts complaining about them breaking things, so

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread Craig Rodrigues
Hi, I don't think many people in the FreeBSD community use Objective-C, hence the apparent lack of a maintainer. The proper way to submit patches to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list at the FSF GCC project is to follow the procedures documented at: http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html If you are

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread Chad David
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:17:07AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:02:16PM -0700, Chad David wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:11:56PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:09:41PM -0700, Chad David wrote: Does anybody know if there is a good

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread Chad David
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:19:43AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:52:56PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: That said, if you want to make it work for you, I'm behind you 100%: I think any changes you want to make are OK; they can always be backed out, if anyone starts

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:23:00AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:52:56PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: That said, if you want to make it work for you, I'm behind you 100%: I think any changes you want to make are OK; they can always be backed

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:23:53AM -0700, Chad David wrote: Which brings us back to my original question... why are ObjC threads disabled? I don't much care about my other patches, I just want to know who the 10 others are who will break if we enable threads, and how to fix that breakage.

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-30 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Objective-C threads ] On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:23:53AM -0700, Chad David wrote: Which brings us back to my original question... why are ObjC threads disabled? I don't much care about my other patches, I

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:16:26AM -0700, Chad David wrote: No there is no reason, and yes the changes are generic. I don't really expect there to be many (if any) changes to libobjc that are not generic, so if gcc-patches is the place to go, that is where I'll go. It is. In your

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread Chad David
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:09:16AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:23:53AM -0700, Chad David wrote: Which brings us back to my original question... why are ObjC threads disabled? I don't much care about my other patches, I just want to know who the 10 others are

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread Chad David
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:22:21AM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote: * De: David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-30 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Objective-C threads ] On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:23:53AM -0700, Chad David wrote: Which brings us back to my original question... why are ObjC

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Chad David [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-30 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Objective-C threads ] On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:22:21AM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote: * De: David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-30 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Objective-C threads ] On Wed, Oct 30, 2002

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Chad David wrote: That said, if you want to make it work for you, I'm behind you 100%: I think any changes you want to make are OK; they can always be backed out, if anyone starts complaining about them breaking things, so I think it's kind of silly for you to ask for permission to

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Chad David wrote: In your experience, how long is the delay between gcc-patches accepting something and FreeBSD picking it up, ie. is it worth the effort? Jeremey Allison (of SAMBA) and I made patches to ACAP to get it to compile under G++, and that required patches to G++ 2.9.3 to support per

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread Loren James Rittle
Use thr-objc not thr-posix. thr-objc maps to the gcc generic thread abstration layer and is better supported these days. It will also correctly disable overhead related to threading when a program is single-threaded using weak symbols. thr-posix doesn't do that... Regards, Loren To

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-30 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Loren James Rittle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-30 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Objective-C threads ] Use thr-objc not thr-posix. thr-objc maps to the gcc generic thread abstration layer and is better supported these days. It will also correctly disable overhead related to threading

Objective-C threads

2002-10-29 Thread Chad David
Does anybody know if there is a good reason why libobjc is built with thr-single.c? As well, who is the current maintainer of Objective-C? -- Chad David[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.FreeBSD.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISSci Inc.Calgary, Alberta Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-29 Thread Terry Lambert
Chad David wrote: Does anybody know if there is a good reason why libobjc is built with thr-single.c? Historical threads problems. As well, who is the current maintainer of Objective-C? Chad David? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-29 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:09:41PM -0700, Chad David wrote: Does anybody know if there is a good reason why libobjc is built with thr-single.c? As well, who is the current maintainer of Objective-C? Few of us have ObjC clue. Do you have a patch that makes things better that you can explain to

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-29 Thread Chad David
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:11:56PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:09:41PM -0700, Chad David wrote: Does anybody know if there is a good reason why libobjc is built with thr-single.c? As well, who is the current maintainer of Objective-C? Few of us have ObjC clue.

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-29 Thread Chad David
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:04:21PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Chad David wrote: Does anybody know if there is a good reason why libobjc is built with thr-single.c? Historical threads problems. A few are obvious from simply reading the code. Do you have any knowledge of specific

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-29 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Chad David [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-29 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Objective-C threads ] As well, who is the current maintainer of Objective-C? Chad David? By default, since there seem to be no other users? I'm willing to help out with testing Objective-C stuff, and any

Re: Objective-C threads

2002-10-29 Thread Terry Lambert
David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:09:41PM -0700, Chad David wrote: Does anybody know if there is a good reason why libobjc is built with thr-single.c? As well, who is the current maintainer of Objective-C? Few of us have ObjC clue. Do you have a patch that makes things