JDK garbage collector: thread context scanning

[Nick Barnes]

At 2004-02-05 23:32:33+0000, Alexey Zelkin writes:

> Since JDK 1.4.1 we got correctly working fallbacks, so I was not
> required to do a black magic anymore.

Can you enlarge on this?  What are "correctly working fallbacks"?

> Lately I have implemented pthread_attr_get_np() function which
> exported all required information on application level and we stoped
> to use private libc_r structures in JDK 1.4.x

Which information delivered by pthread_attr_get_np() do you use?
pthread_attr_getstack()?

> Sorry for not saying anything helpful for you :(

Not at all, this is very helpful.

Nick Barnes
Ravenbrook Limited