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On 11/06/12 21:57, David Daney wrote:
> On 11/06/2012 12:38 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
>> classpath wasn't merged for the gcc-4.7 release, is anybody working on a
>> merge for gcc-4.8?  stage1 is finished now, however I think this should
>> still be possible to do for 4.8.
>>
>> as a related topic, should an update of boehm-gc be addressed too?
>>
> 
> I am not a maintainer, but I would say yes to both questions.
> 
> Really the importance of GCJ/libgcj relative to GCC is lower than it 
> used to be, so I doubt that doing this in a non-stage1 stage really 
> matters that much.

Perhaps not, but now is an excellent time to do it.

Andrew.