big project ported

[Jeff Sturm]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com> writes:
> 
> Jeff> I hacked in a call to GC_expand_hp() in libjava/boehm.cc
> Jeff> (_Jv_InitGC).  I used a environment variable to set the initial
> Jeff> size, but a Java property would probably be more appropriate,
> Jeff> especially now that we have compiler support for properties.
> 
> I've added -ms and -mx options to gij.  These set the initial and
> maximum heap size.  We can extend this to compiled code using
> properties if we can decide on a nice name for the properties.  Any
> suggestions?

Obvious names are "gc.initheap" and "gc.maxheap".  We can't guarantee
these won't collide with names Sun will eventually use, though... maybe
we should prefix property names with "gcj".


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Jeff Sturm
jsturm@sigma6.com