Added macosx-port-dev On May 21, 2013, at 10:57 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> Adding core-libs as this is actually a launcher change. > > David > > On 21/05/2013 4:36 PM, Petr Pchelko wrote: >> Hello, AWT Team. >> >> Please review the fix for the issue: >> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8009911 >> The webrev is available at: >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pchelko/8009911/webrev.00/ >> >> The problem: >> When launching java with -XstatrOnFirstThread we were using dispatch_sync to >> start a Java main on the main thread. This blocked the main dispatch queue, >> so all the subsequent calls to GCD were never invoked. GCD is used a bit in >> our code, but it is used inside Cocoa, for example for fullscreen. >> >> The solution: >> We now launch Java main using a performSelectorOnMaintThread, so we do not >> block GCD. >> >> Notes: >> 1. This also fixes the following SWT bug: >> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=388886 >> 2. Although I have added OBJC syntax into java_md_macosx.c file, I did not >> rename it to .m, because: >> a. It is hard to update an old build system to compile with the new >> file name. >> b. It is already compiled with -x objective-c, so I will compile >> c. We would have lost all the hg history for this file. >> >> With best regards. Petr. >>
