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Re: Gcc 3.0 Open Issues
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- Subject: Re: Gcc 3.0 Open Issues
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 26 Apr 2000 18:32:41 -0600
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- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
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>>>>> "Helge" == Helge Hess <helge.hess@mdlink.de> writes:
Helge> A thing which might be useful would be the sharing of the Boehm
Helge> GC between the ObjC and the Java runtime. The same is true for
Helge> libffi if that is going to be part of gcc.
The Java runtime requires libffi and really is useless without a GC --
and, right now, the Boehm GC is the only one we support.
Sharing libffi with ObjC is no problem.
Sharing the GC is more of a problem because it is largely compile-time
and not run-time configurable. We configure it to be a good Java GC.
I don't know whether this would be appropriate for ObjC.
Hans has told me in the past that he's interested in making the GC
more run-time configurable, to solve this sort of problem. I don't
know how far along that work is.
Tom