[fedora-java] Re: java issues on ppc

[Andrew Haley]

Robin Green writes:
 > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:25:53AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > >  >  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23367
 > >  > 
 > >  > I'm told that this bug only affects the interpreter.
 > > 
 > > Can you please tell us how this should be changed?  Not necessarily a
 > > patch, but an outline of one.
 > 
 > The function in question needs to be synchronized in some way, assuming
 > you're going to keep the cache. However, Tom Tromey speculated that removing
 > the cache might be more efficient than synchronizing on every cache lookup.

Yes, it might indeed be.  We should perhaps just move the cache to
thread-local storage, and if the target has no TLS, we can disable the
feature.  We already have a configure check for TLS in gcc, so it
might be pretty easy.

Andrew.