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Re: GCC and boehm-gc
NightStrike wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:27 PM, David Daney<ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
>> NightStrike wrote:
>>> Given the recent issues with libffi being so drastically out of synch
>>> with upstream, I was curious about boehm-gc and how that is handled.
>>> In getting gcj to work on Win64, the next step is boehm-gc now that
>>> libffi works just fine. However, the garbage collector is in terrible
>>> shape and will need a bit of work. Do we send those fixes here to
>>> GCC, or to some other project? Who handles it? How is the synching
>>> done compared to other external projects?
>>>
>> Your analysis of the situation is essentially correct.
>>
>> Hans (now CCed) is good about merging changes to the upstream sources,
>> but we haven't updated GCC/libgcj's copy in quite some time. A
>> properly motivated person would have to import a newer version of the
>> GC checking that all GCC local changes were either already merged, or
>> if not port them to the new GC (those that are not upstream should
>> then be evaluated to see if they should be).
>
> So it seems that boehm-gc is in the exact state as libffi.
No, it's not. The problem with libffi is that it was updated in gcc and
upstream; that is much less of a problem with boehm-gc.
Andrew.