From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6108 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2012 16:21:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 6059 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Nov 2012 16:21:02 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_BJ,TW_GC,TW_IB X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:20:52 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qAKGKpnq009599 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:20:51 -0500 Received: from zebedee.pink (ovpn-113-82.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.82]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qAKGKmRK015001; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:20:49 -0500 Message-ID: <50ABADE0.9000305@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:21:00 -0000 From: Andrew Haley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120911 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Klose CC: NightStrike , Ivan Maidanski , Boehm GC , Kai Tietz , GCJ-patches Subject: Re: [Gc] Re: boehm-gc merge for GCC References: <1353097280.505328435@f161.mail.ru> <50A67667.7020600@ubuntu.com> <1353099257.140499471@f123.mail.ru> <50A6EE27.4000605@ubuntu.com> In-Reply-To: <50A6EE27.4000605@ubuntu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact java-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-q4/txt/msg00039.txt.bz2 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.