NightStrike wrote:
Given the recent issues with libffi being so drastically out of synch with upstream, I was curious about boehm-gc and how that is handled. In getting gcj to work on Win64, the next step is boehm-gc now that libffi works just fine. However, the garbage collector is in terrible shape and will need a bit of work. Do we send those fixes here to GCC, or to some other project? Who handles it? How is the synching done compared to other external projects?
Your analysis of the situation is essentially correct. Hans (now CCed) is good about merging changes to the upstream sources, but we haven't updated GCC/libgcj's copy in quite some time. A properly motivated person would have to import a newer version of the GC checking that all GCC local changes were either already merged, or if not port them to the new GC (those that are not upstream should then be evaluated to see if they should be). David Daney
