Fingerpointing about broken Ada tasking starting with FreeBSD 9.0 threading

John Marino freebsdml at marino.st
Sat Jul 21 00:36:10 UTC 2012


On 7/21/2012 02:32, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 02:21:49AM +0200, John Marino wrote:
>> On 7/20/2012 18:32, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>>>
>>> FYI, this problem is supposedly fixed by r238637, as much as I can judge
>>> based on your description and commit itself.
>>
>> Hi Konstantin,
>>
>> I went ahead and patched the FreeBSD 9.0 thread library with r238637 and
>> reran the Ada testsuite.  Add the tasking tests that failed before now
>> pass.  It appears that is indeed the fix that is needed!
>>
>> In practical terms, it means people will either have to patch and
>> rebuild the library, or upgrade to FreeBSD 9.1.  Will this revision make
>> it into 9.1?  it's seems to be in beta already.
>
> David specified MFC timeout for 3 days, as you can see on your own in the
> commit message.

Ok thanks.  I wasn't 100% sure which branch the MFC referred to.


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