openjdk crashes while installing jdeveloper

[Christos Zoulas]

On Feb 9,  7:37am, kurt at intricatesoftware.com (Kurt Miller) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: openjdk crashes while installing jdeveloper

| Nikolas and I are working on this off list. The bsd_zero apple
| atomic operation implementations such as atomic_swap and
| atomic_cas are not thread safe. SMP makes that problem
| easier to see. We tried using the gcc 4.2 builtin atomic operations
| however the are now deadlocks to debug.

Well, NetBSD has assembly implementations of the standard atomics
for all major archs. I know that zero means zero assembly, but perhaps
we can make an exception in this case?

christos