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Re: Boehm GC API update backport

From: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>
To: Ivan Maidanski <ivmai at mail dot ru>, GCJ-patches <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:55:47 +0100
Subject: Re: Boehm GC API update backport
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On 16.01.2016 13:19, Ivan Maidanski wrote:

Hello,

Proposed 4 commits are code refactoring of boehm-gc (and libjava/boehm.cc, accordingly) to match API of recent BDWGC master ( https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc ). This should simplify optional replacement of internal boehm-gcc with the external one.
All gcj tests pass.

Some of the benefits of using mainline boehm gc:
*  has no compiler warning
*  more targets supported (e.g. arm64)
*  no trouble with back-porting gc patches Similar thing was proposed for the Mono community -  https://github.com/mono/mono/pull/2247  (the patches were accepted recently)

References:
[1] The proposed patches in GCC unofficial git mirror fork -  https://github.com/ivmai/gcc/tree/match-bdwgc-api

for completeness, please check an ObjC enabled build configured with--enable-objc-gc


Matthias

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