[m-rev.] for review: Enable thread-local allocation and parallel marking on more platforms.

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Julien Fischer wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Peter Wang wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:19:25 +1000 (EST), Julien Fischer 
>> <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Peter Wang wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I intend to apply this on the 14.01 branch.  I think it should be fine,
>>>> but if someone could test it on an SMP OS X machine (e.g. bootcheck in
>>>> hlc.par.gc) then that would be better.
>>> 
>>> By "someone", do you mean me?
>> 
>> Yes :)
>
> On OS X, I get the following failures when bootchecking in hlc.par.gc
>
>    hard_coded/spawn_native
>    hard_coded/thread_barrier_test
>    hard_coded/tl_backjump_test
>    par_conj/spawn_many
>    par_conj/thread_barrier
>
> All are aborting due to segmentation faults.  I'm not sure if this is
> a result of your patch or if it's happening anyway.   (I'll try again
> without your patch.)

The above also occur without your patch; I'll look into them separately.

Cheers,
Julien.