Re: Patch: GC_5_0_ALPHA_1

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>]

Tom Tromey wrote:

> Also, I'm concerned that we didn't talk about this before it was done.
> It is ok, sort of, since it is on a branch.  But in general we ought
> to discuss changes like these beforehand.  I'm particularly concerned
> about this one since I'm not sure we want to use 5.0alpha --
> presumably it is "alpha" for a reason.  Maybe we should adopt a policy
> of using the most recent stable version.  (I'm not sure how I feel
> about this, I'm just pointing out that talking about it would be
> good.)

OK, point taken.

I think the gc distribution uses the term "alpha" fairly loosely, but I
agree that there may be sound psycological reasons to use a stable
version in the trunk ;-). I decided to play with 5.0a1 because it
apparantly fixes some cases where the heap would be expanded too much,
can shrink the heap (-DUSE_MUNMAP), and adds a lot of platform
support/fixes.

> Somewhere around here I have a document describing how and why to use
> "cvs import".  I'll try to clean it up and put it in the libgcj web
> pages sometime this week.

Yes, "import" would have been better. Sorry.

regards

  [ bryce ]