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Re: What version of Boehm for --enable-objc-gc ?
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Fabrice Feray <fabrice at feray dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, GC Mailing List <gc at napali dot hpl dot hp dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:22:13 -0700
- Subject: Re: What version of Boehm for --enable-objc-gc ?
- References: <2E2A6F15-3752-4984-96C8-A22DC417D68E@feray.com> <49F1CA95.6070201@redhat.com>
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> Fabrice Feray wrote:
>
>> What version of Boehm's gc is best fit for the objc runtime? It seems
>> that the one that comes with gcc is a special version meant for java. Am
>> I wrong?
>
> It's not substantially customized for Java, although it has some hooks that
> make it work better on Java. ÂI don't think there's any reason not to use
> it for Objc.
>
> Maybe someone on the GC Mailing List has more info, but I think that's right.
in fact recent versions of gcc, turn on the in tree version for use
with libobjc also.
--Pinski