Re: protecting malloc(), etc

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From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Sat Feb 06 1999 - 22:16:36 EST


On Feb 5, 1999, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> wrote:

> Archie Cobbs writes:
>> By the way, I don't think the JNI spec says anything about
>> whether native code can expect to be protected from preemption.
>> Does anyone know more about this? If not, we have to protect
>> all native calls anyway.

> OR, make it clear that native routines are responsible for
> doing this themselves (which might make more sense).

How could they? I mean, we can do it within Kaffe native code, but we
can't require generic native code to do anything specific to Kaffe.

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Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil


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