From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>
Cc: NightStrike <nightstrike@gmail.com>,
Ivan Maidanski <ivmai@mail.ru>,
Boehm GC <gc@linux.hpl.hp.com>,
Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com>,
GCJ-patches <java-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Gc] Re: boehm-gc merge for GCC
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50ABADE0.9000305@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50A6EE27.4000605@ubuntu.com>
On 11/17/2012 01:53 AM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> [CCing java-patches and Andrew too]
>
> I'm currently striving for something for the 4.8 release. Not sure if relying on
> an external library is the right thing to do for the 4.8 release.
Probably not.
> Currently boehm-gc is linked to libgcj as a convenience library. I remember that
> trying to link boehm-gc as a shared library did cause some performance
> regressions (although I think I did only check this in the early 4.x times).
>
> Please could you elaborate on the API changes in gcj?
>
> There is also a second user of boehm-gc in GCC, when you configure with
> --enable-objc-gc. I didn't check yet which changes are needed for that.
>
> Would it be possible to create a branch in the GCC svn, and then prepare the
> merge, and libjava and libobjc changes there?
Certainly.
Andrew.
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2012-11-17 1:54 ` Matthias Klose
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2012-11-26 15:08 ` Matthias Klose
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