Re: 0.98 Release Imminent

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/2/4 Andrew Haley <[email protected]>:
>> 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  <[email protected]>

	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.