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Re: boehm-gc still has issues



On 1/15/14, 4:56 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
lang/mono2 fails on NetBSD 6 i386, apparently due to bugs in boehm-gc,
where it doesn't use pthread calls correctly to find the stack:

   http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=46147

and discussion about workarounds in mono by turning off boehm-gc:

   http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=45828

It would be nice if someone were to fix boehm-gc or knows enough to
report it upstream.  Upstream's HOMEPAGE did not immediately indicate a
bug tracker, but the source is now on github and seems active.

Ah hah!  This explains why my pbulk runs on amd64 (6.1.2) hang in mono...

(yes, a fix would be nice!)

+j



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