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Re: Java GC descriptor vs. tree_int_cst on 64-bit platforms
- To: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Subject: Re: Java GC descriptor vs. tree_int_cst on 64-bit platforms
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: 04 Apr 2001 18:21:31 -0600
- Cc: "'Fergus Henderson'" <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>, "'aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com'" <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>, "'java at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "'gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- References: <140D21516EC2D3119EE7009027876644049B5D0B@hplex1.hpl.hp.com>
- Reply-To: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:
Hans> There are clearly too many different versions of this garbage
Hans> collector around at the moment. I would personally like to move
Hans> to a model where the version in the gcc tree is the one and only
Hans> "official" one, though seriously experimental versions may still
Hans> apear elsewhere first. That's not yet possible for several
Hans> reasons (incompatible build processes; before 6.0 there were too
Hans> many essential compile-time options; 6.0 isn't quite ready, and
Hans> hasn't yet made it into the gcc trunk.) But all of those are
Hans> fixable, and on my list of things to fix.
Wow, that's great news.
It's always possible to do experiments, even major ones, on a branch.
I'm sure that the gcc maintainers wouldn't have a problem with
occasional branches of gcc/boehm-gc/.
Tom