Is _thread_in_native safe for handshake/safepoint?
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Tue Oct 27 08:37:17 UTC 2020
On 27/10/2020 08:15, Robbin Ehn wrote:
> I think the main reason for not making the stack walkable is to avoid
> register flushes. Since we do not have such hardware anymore in mainline
> I see no reason to skip making the stack walkable.
Oh wow, I would not have guessed that. I'm glad we have people around
who remember, but sad there isn't a comment in the code that would
have provided a clue.
Thanks,
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