Gcc 3.0 Open Issues

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "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