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Re: IA-64 Boehm gc patch
- To: tromey at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: IA-64 Boehm gc patch
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at pasanda dot cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Date: 20 Jun 2000 12:43:00 -0000
- CC: java-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:21:25 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
>
> Andrew> Looking at that patch again, I guess it leads to some
> Andrew> inefficiency on non-IA64 systems. I will throw #ifdef IA64
> Andrew> around it if people think it's necessary, but I don't like to
> Andrew> clutter code with #ifdefs that aren't essential.
>
> Someday we'll be able to back it out, right? I mean, once every IA-64
> libc has the appropriate fix?
I expect the very first Red Hat Linux release not to have this bug, so
this patch only applies to development versions. However, because the
patch does little harm I'd prefer to keep it around until we know for
sure no-one is affected.
Andrew.