Fwd: Re: Native JDK with libthr/libkse

[Tom Samplonius]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:

...
> I was more interested in the statement that "jdk is only guaranteed
> to work with libc_r" that one of the Java developers posted.  I
> took it to mean that the implementation of our jdk is geared
> towards libc_r (perhaps knowing internal stuff about how libc_r
> works).  I don't want anything like that to stop us, and we
> can add some common APIs to the threads libraries if needed
> to support it.

  I don't think jdk uses any libc_r internals.  I believe it is just that
jdk1.4.1 is a very large and very complex application, and the jdk
developers don't want to have to track libkse/libthr issues when jdk1.4.1
is still beta and requires plenty more work.  I know the Java developers
are trying to get jdk1.4.1 to the point it can pass Sun's TCK, so it can
be distributed as a binary.

> -- 
> Dan Eischen


Tom