darwin & libgcj ?

[Jeff Sturm]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Boehm, Hans wrote:
> As far as I'm concerned, the state of the collector currently isn't all
> that great on MacOSX.  I think the problems aren't hard to deal with.
> But I don't have regular access to the platform, and I keep getting bug
> reports, but no patches.

I'm on a borrowed machine myself... I know very little about OSX, but much
more than yesterday.

> Incremental collection should probably be disabled for now.

I agree.  I don't think it works at all.  I can send you the trivial
patch, if you want.

> The more serious issue is that, at least in the official gcc tree and in
> my tree, DYNAMIC_LOADING is not defined in gcconfig.h for MACOSX.

GCC and libtool don't know how to build shared libraries for OSX yet.

> I'm not sure whether just turning on the FreeBSD code for MACOSX would work.

I doubt it.  OSX isn't an ELF target.

> (I don't think I saw all of this thread, and thus may have missed something.)

It started on the main gcc list.

Jeff