Re: The perl 5.10.0 headache

2008-07-16 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi, After talking it over with stephen and arranging perl 5.10 to be built on real metal vs aranym, we are pleased to report that perl passes its test suite with the exception of one test, a threading stress test which launchs multiple threads, and then tries to make sure that they close in ord

Re: The perl 5.10.0 headache

2008-07-08 Thread Petr Salinger
I haven't had an opportunity to run the test yet (my laptop currently grinding away building the new release of GCC for m68k) but threads on Linux when using linuxthreads to my knowledge are almost completely in userland; linuxthreads uses clone() to create them. If it requires real-time signals o

Re: The perl 5.10.0 headache

2008-07-08 Thread Michael Casadevall
I haven't had an opportunity to run the test yet (my laptop currently grinding away building the new release of GCC for m68k) but threads on Linux when using linuxthreads to my knowledge are almost completely in userland; linuxthreads uses clone() to create them. If it requires real-time signals on

Re: The perl 5.10.0 headache

2008-07-08 Thread Petr Salinger
Problem would be rather missing memory barier, or non-atomic operation. This should be fixable even with 2.5 glibc and linuxthreads. Do we need a fix in linuxthreads, or the kernel? I don't know. The linuxthreads add-on is currently used by hppa and kfreebsd-* for glibc 2.7. But the latest e

Re: The perl 5.10.0 headache

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
After talking it over with stephen and arranging perl 5.10 to be built on real metal vs aranym, we are pleased to report that perl passes its test suite with the exception of one test, a threading stress test which launchs multiple threads, and then tries to make sure that they close in order.

Re: The perl 5.10.0 headache

2008-07-07 Thread Petr Salinger
Hi from GNU/kFreeBSD porter. After talking it over with stephen and arranging perl 5.10 to be built on real metal vs aranym, we are pleased to report that perl passes its test suite with the exception of one test, a threading stress test which launchs multiple threads, and then tries to make su

Re: The perl 5.10.0 headache

2008-07-07 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 09:56:19AM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: > After talking it over with stephen and arranging perl 5.10 to be built on > real metal vs aranym, we are pleased to report that perl passes its test > suite with the exception of one test, a threading stress test which launchs >

The perl 5.10.0 headache

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Casadevall
After talking it over with stephen and arranging perl 5.10 to be built on real metal vs aranym, we are pleased to report that perl passes its test suite with the exception of one test, a threading stress test which launchs multiple threads, and then tries to make sure that they close in order. Thi