openjdk crashes while installing jdeveloper

[Christos Zoulas]

On Feb 10,  9:30am, kurt at intricatesoftware.com (Kurt Miller) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: openjdk crashes while installing jdeveloper

| Hi Christos,
| 
| Indeed. If GCC 4.2 atomics don't pan out, I'd prefer to write them myself.
| The asm for it is straitforward. I'm more conserned that there are locking
| issues in the zero implementation. Once I have decent debug info I should
| be able to determine cause of the deadlocks.

I know it is straight-forward, but there are many different abstractions
you can present to the code. We at NetBSD chose to follow the Solaris API's
and we have not regretted that. Just a data point.

christos