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Re: [PATCH] Delete GCJ
> On 4 Oct 2016, at 18:23, Mike Stump <mikestump@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Oct 4, 2016, at 1:41 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 04/10/16 09:39, Rainer Orth wrote:
>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>
>>>> On 05.09.2016 17:13, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>>> As discussed. I think I should ask a Global reviewer to approve this
>>>>> one. For obvious reasons I haven't included the diffs to the deleted
>>>>> gcc/java and libjava directories. The whole tree, post GCJ-deletion,
>>>>> is at svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcj/gcj-deletion-branch
>>>>> if anyone would like to try it.
>>>>
>>>> still breaks bootstraps when configured with --enable-objc-gc.
>>>>
>>>> the immediate step should be to fix the bootstrap failure, as an additional step
>>>> to remove boehm-gc from the gcc sources and be able to use an external boehm-gc.
>>>
>>> the first part is handled by my unreviewed patch
>>>
>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-09/msg02437.html
>>
>> Looks obvious to me, fixes bootstrap. I think no-one will complain
>> if you check it in.
>
> I don't know who wants to review it, but if people want me to, Ok. The idea is that if ObjC is the last remaining user in tree for boehm-gc, then reasonably I'm the last man standing. Of course, if others want to review approve the patch, I'm fine with that.
>
> I'm fine with patches to externalize boehm-gc if people want to push that direction.
+1
Iain