classpath merge for gcc-4.8?

classpath merge for gcc-4.8?

[Matthias Klose]

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?

thanks, Matthias

Re: classpath merge for gcc-4.8?

[David Daney]

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.

David Daney

Re: classpath merge for gcc-4.8?

[Andrew Haley]

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.

Re: classpath merge for gcc-4.8?

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 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.
> 

I was planning one for when I get back from Toronto. I wanted to do it
earlier but all these trips get in the way.  Can we still get it in
after stage 1?

There are a number of important fixes to go in, notably a regression
in the locale data & a performance regression in DateFormatSymbols
spotted by the JikesRVM team which dates back to Classpath 0.98.
There are also some new method implementations that will be helpful
for building OpenJDK and the usual bug fixes.

Check out bugs targeted to 0.99.1 in GCC Bugzilla.

> as a related topic, should an update of boehm-gc be addressed too?
> 
> thanks, Matthias
> 

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