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RE: darwin & libgcj ?
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Cc: "'Andreas Tobler'" <toa at pop dot agri dot ch>, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>, <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:23:26 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: darwin & libgcj ?
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Boehm, Hans wrote:
> As far as I'm concerned, the state of the collector currently isn't all
> that great on MacOSX. I think the problems aren't hard to deal with.
> But I don't have regular access to the platform, and I keep getting bug
> reports, but no patches.
I'm on a borrowed machine myself... I know very little about OSX, but much
more than yesterday.
> Incremental collection should probably be disabled for now.
I agree. I don't think it works at all. I can send you the trivial
patch, if you want.
> The more serious issue is that, at least in the official gcc tree and in
> my tree, DYNAMIC_LOADING is not defined in gcconfig.h for MACOSX.
GCC and libtool don't know how to build shared libraries for OSX yet.
> I'm not sure whether just turning on the FreeBSD code for MACOSX would work.
I doubt it. OSX isn't an ELF target.
> (I don't think I saw all of this thread, and thus may have missed something.)
It started on the main gcc list.
Jeff