Re: Small patch for Thread.java

[Brian Jones]

Archie Cobbs <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Here's a patch that might help the next VM implementor after me... :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> -Archie

Committed.

Thanks,
Brian

> 
> __________________________________________________________________________
> Archie Cobbs     *     Precision I/O      *     http://www.precisionio.com
> 
> --- /home/archie/classpath/classpath-0.05/vm/reference/java/lang/Thread.java  
> Thu Oct  3 09:07:34 2002
> +++ Thread.java       Thu Mar  6 15:38:04 2003
> @@ -279,7 +295,14 @@
>    }
>  
>    /**
> -   * Get the currently executing Thread.
> +   * Get the currently executing Thread. In the situation that the
> +   * currently running thread was created by native code and doesn't
> +   * have an associated Thread object yet, currentThread() should set
> +   * a flag and then attempt to construct and return a new Thread object.
> +   * When currentThread() is invoked again recursively by the Thread
> +   * constructor, the flag will already be set and in that second case
> +   * currentThread() should just return null. currentThread() should not
> +   * return a non-null value until after the constructor has returned.
>     *
>     * @return the currently executing Thread
>     */
> 
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