[pypy-svn] r45932 - pypy/branch/pypy-more-rtti-inprogress/module/thread

[arigo at codespeak.net]

Author: arigo
Date: Thu Aug 23 15:40:59 2007
New Revision: 45932

Modified:
   pypy/branch/pypy-more-rtti-inprogress/module/thread/os_thread.py
Log:
Documented non-fix.


Modified: pypy/branch/pypy-more-rtti-inprogress/module/thread/os_thread.py
==============================================================================
--- pypy/branch/pypy-more-rtti-inprogress/module/thread/os_thread.py	(original)
+++ pypy/branch/pypy-more-rtti-inprogress/module/thread/os_thread.py	Thu Aug 23 15:40:59 2007
@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@
 from pypy.rlib.objectmodel import free_non_gc_object
 
 # This code has subtle memory management issues in order to start
-# a new thread.  It should work correctly with Boehm and refcounting,
-# but the framework GC will not see the references stored in the
-# raw-malloced Bootstrapper instances => crash.
-
+# a new thread.  It should work correctly with Boehm, but the framework
+# GC will not see the references stored in the raw-malloced Bootstrapper
+# instances => crash.  It crashes with refcounting too
+# (see the skipped test_raw_instance_flavor in
+# rpython/memory/gctransformer/test/test_refcounting).
 
 class Bootstrapper(object):
     _alloc_flavor_ = 'raw'