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RE: ObjC configured --with-objc-gc needs external Boehm gc
- To: "'Matthias Klose'" <doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: RE: ObjC configured --with-objc-gc needs external Boehm gc
- From: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:37:29 -0800
- Cc: java-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com, ovidiu at cup dot hp dot com
I can't think of any fundamental problems. I suspect Objective C normally
wants the collector built to recognize all interior pointers, where gcj
builds it without that option, so that interior pointers are recognized only
if they're on a stack. This is currently a build time option, but that
probably doesn't save very much anymore over making it a runtime option.
Does Objective C normally use the collector with thread support?
There are probably also other issues with the build process. Tom Tromey can
probably comment on those.
Hans
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Klose [mailto:doko@cs.tu-berlin.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 2:07 PM
> To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Cc: java-discuss@sources.redhat.com; ovidiu@cup.hp.com
> Subject: ObjC configured --with-objc-gc needs external Boehm gc
>
>
> The Objective C runtime library enabled with garbage collection needs
> an external Boehm gc collector beeing installed at compile time. Is it
> possible to build the libobjcgc library with the Boehm gc that is
> already used for gcj?
>