Importing boehm-gc 6.7?

David Daney ddaney@avtrex.com
Mon Jul 17 17:19:00 GMT 2006


Todd Vierling wrote:
> (I'm not on the list, so please Cc: me on replies, at least for now.  This
> is just a preliminary question.  ;)
> 
> So, gcj still uses boehm-gc 6.3-hacked-to-bits.  Is there any chance of
> bringing it up to date (at least version 6.7)?  Doing so *should* make gcj
> threads [mostly, if not fully] work on NetBSD.  gcj-4.1 on NetBSD is near
> useless, and 4.2 simply segfaults at startup.
> 
> I've attempted to look at three-way diffs of gc-6.7 <-> gc-6.3 <-> gcj-4.2,
> but my head hurts.  Perhaps a vendor import is really the way to go here,
> rather than trying to forklift yet more hacks into place...?
> 

A good question.  Perhaps the libgcj maintainers would care to comment.

David Daney.



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