2009/2/4 Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Andrew John Hughes wrote: >> 2009/2/4 Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx>: >>> Andrew John Hughes wrote: >>>> I plan to release 0.98 on Thursday before FOSDEM, now that the >>>> security issue has been patched: >>>> >>>> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38417 >>>> >>>> If there are any major bugs that mean a release should not go ahead, >>>> please let me know ASAP. >>> I have found a deadlock in gcj in AWT even processing. I don't know >>> if it affects all of Classpath, but I think so. >> >> Do you have any more details? I'll see if I can replicate it here. > > Found it, and it's already fixed in Classpath. It's this: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.classpath.patches/12149 > > Despite the fact that this patch was written in mid-2007 it is still not > in the gcc 4.3 branch. Unfortunately, gcc 4.3.3 was released last > Sunday. :-( > > It looks like the last Classpath import for gcc 4.3 was this: > > 2007-08-04 Matthias Klose <doko@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Import GNU Classpath (libgcj-import-20070727). > > which means that this change of 2007-08-23 missed gcc 4.3, even though > 4.3 wasn't released until 2008-03-05. > > Thus, every gcj ever released has this evil deadlock, even that in > Fedora 10. > > Andrew. > Ouch... we really should be doing better at keeping these in sync. This is partly why I want to get another Classpath release sorted. At the moment, GCJ and Classpath are pretty much in sync (I'll merge across Mario's patch and any remaining fixes against the 0.98 tag once made). This should mean 4.4 ~= 0.98 and we can then port across any appropriate bug/security fixes that occur more easily. We shouldn't just stop merging code from Classpath once a gcc is frozen (though obviously we shouldn't merge new features to such a branch either). -- Andrew :-) IcedTea/OpenJDK Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
