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From: Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>
To: Ivan Maidanski <ivmai@mail.ru>, GCJ-patches <java-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Boehm GC API update backport
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 00:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <569AE693.4080602@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452946775.620786968@f334.i.mail.ru>

On 16.01.2016 13:19, Ivan Maidanski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Proposed 4 commits are code refactoring of boehm-gc (and libjava/boehm.cc, accordingly) to match API of recent BDWGC master ( https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc ). This should simplify optional replacement of internal boehm-gcc with the external one.
> All gcj tests pass.
>
> Some of the benefits of using mainline boehm gc:
> *  has no compiler warning
> *  more targets supported (e.g. arm64)
> *  no trouble with back-porting gc patches Similar thing was proposed for the Mono community -  https://github.com/mono/mono/pull/2247  (the patches were accepted recently)
>
> References:
> [1] The proposed patches in GCC unofficial git mirror fork -  https://github.com/ivmai/gcc/tree/match-bdwgc-api

for completeness, please check an ObjC enabled build configured with 
--enable-objc-gc

Matthias

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-17  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-16 12:19 Ivan Maidanski
2016-01-17  0:55 ` Matthias Klose [this message]
2016-01-19 22:41   ` Re[2]: " Ivan Maidanski

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