[kaffe] Cygwin signal handling (or lack thereof) and kaffe cvs

[Guilhem Lavaux]

Jim Pick wrote:

>Hi Nicholas,
>
>On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:41:38 -0500
>Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I just went to try the latest kaffe cvs, when I noticed a critical issue 
>>in the build process.  What, may I ask, are those of us using Cygwin 
>>supposed to do now that there is a `#error' directive in our md.h?  I 
>>assure you that sigcontext will *NOT* be implemented anytime soon 
>>(trying to emulate POSIX signals via Windows signals is extremely 
>>complicated).  I'm also certain this will also affect other non-linux 
>>platforms which use newlib.
>>    
>>
>
>This was done by Guilhem Lavaux as part of the process of switching over
>to the Classpath I/O libraries.  I haven't visited the problem myself,
>so I hope he can comment on the technical details.
>  
>

It's not completely because of classpath's IO: I'm just using the 
multithread core of kaffe and haven't touched to the logic of signal 
handling. The real problem comes from interrupt in jthread.c: to be able 
to handle JVMPI you need the current "exception frame" through signal 
parameters. I don't even know if it can be turned around... Actually I 
had a look at Cygwin internals a few months ago and apparently they have 
the pointer we need in some place but they've decided not to put it in a 
parameter so we're blocked... I'll try to find another solution when I 
have some time (no prediction about that sorry).

Cheers,
Guilhem.