Re [gclist] Boehm GC & threads on Linux

[Michael Spertus]

At 06:05 AM 2/20/00 -0500, you wrote:

>gclist-digest        Sunday, February 20 2000        Volume 03 : Number 069
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>Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:07:25 -0800
>From: "Boehm, Hans" <hboehm@exch.hpl.hp.com>
>Subject: RE: [gclist] Boehm GC & threads on Linux
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>Linuxthreads in fact uses a two level tree data structure to store
>thread specific data.  I think I scan the first, but the second is currently
>(where current is defined to be the snapshot in my workarea) allocated
>with calloc, and thus not scanned.  This may have changed fairly recently,
>I haven't checked.

Great Circle may be a good alternative here. We manage memory allocated 
with calloc, malloc, etc. This ensures we get thread local storage. As a 
nice side effect, it also allows you (at your choice) to GC all memory and 
not explicitly call GC_Malloc anywhere.

Mike