Helping out with JDK 9 on BSD

[Brian Gardner]

I’ve been working on getting the debug build running.  I’m stuck on a SIGBUS error trickling up from a new test, test_safefetch32 at StubRoutines.cpp line:599.  It seems like it’s trying to test an passing an invalid address but expects to get a response and to be able to handle it, but can’t.  I haven’t looked into the change sets yet to determine what they are trying to achieve with this new code, and what the expected behavior is.  I’ll continue with that tomorrow.

Brian

> On Feb 1, 2016, at 2:55 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On 2016-02-01 23:29, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>> On 2016-02-01 23:11, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
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>> I'm not sure what's happening here. My emails are being stripped of content. :-( I'll try to resend using my private SMTP server.
> Didn't work either. I give up. Seems the content is filtered by mailman? :(
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> I'll try to post a few highlights anyway:
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> This might be due to a different interpretation/implementation of pthreads in FreeBSD, see e.g. https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2009-June/004563.html. I can't really say this situation applies (I can't find usages of pthread_key_delete) but maybe there's a similar issue.
> 
> One approach would be to compile a debug build (configure --enable-debug) and see if the "initializing TLS more than once" assert is triggered.
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> Or try recompiling with -DUSE_LIBRARY_BASED_TLS_ONLY. I don't think it should matter, but maybe.
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> /Magnus
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