Am Freitag, den 01.08.2008, 12:06 +0100 schrieb David Chisnall: > It appears that GNUstep is using the ObjC runtime mutex, which tries > to emulate a recursive mutex using a non-recursive mutex. It looked > like there was a potential for deadlock in here when I looked at the > code a few months ago. Since GNUstep depends on pthreads anyway, it > might be better to use the pthread functions directly, rather than > going through a buggy abstraction layer.
I don't believe that bypassing the objc abstraction layer is a good idea. GNUstep and GNU ObjC have been ported to platforms that may not be supported be pthreads. In particular I remember that FreeBSD at on point used a different threading library that claimed POSIX/pthread compatibility. I would instead try to create a libobjc test case a report a bug against libobjc to get it fixed there. Now with all this ObjC 2.0 activity I would believe that someone would have get GCC libobjc up to par anyway on these platforms to be able test it there anyway. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
