Question re safepoints and monitors

[Andrew Haley]

On 01/12/2012 01:21 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> Yes I think you are correct. The exception will remain as a pending 
> async exception until the next thread state transition that causes 
> handle_special_runtime_exit_condition to be called (or there may be some 
> other path that forces an async check - like the next safepoint).
> 
> There is a lot of history to the way Thread.stop operates ...

I can well imagine!

Thanks very much,
Andrew.