Re: GCC and boehm-gc

2009-06-18 Thread Michael Meissner
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:10:53PM -0400, 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.

Re: GCC and boehm-gc

2009-06-18 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Hans Boehm wrote: > What has been a problem is that while the 6.8 -> 7.0 changes cleaned > up the code substantially, and a lot of contributed patches since then > have done a lot more of that, that step also introduced a fair amount of > instability.  I think we're

Re: GCC and boehm-gc

2009-06-18 Thread Hans Boehm
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, NightStrike wrote: So it seems that boehm-gc is in the exact state as libffi. This is yet another example of why we shouldn't duplicate sources... Hans, would you be willing to bring boehm-gc up to speed so that we can start getting it to work for Win64? Without this,

Re: GCC and boehm-gc

2009-06-18 Thread Andrew Haley
NightStrike wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> 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 bo

Re: GCC and boehm-gc

2009-06-18 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > 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

Re: GCC and boehm-gc

2009-06-18 Thread Andrew Haley
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 ter

Re: GCC and boehm-gc

2009-06-18 Thread David Daney
NightStrike wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: NightStrike wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:27 PM, David Daney wrote: 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

Re: GCC and boehm-gc

2009-06-18 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > NightStrike wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:27 PM, David Daney >> wrote: >>> 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 h

Re: GCC and boehm-gc

2009-06-18 Thread David Daney
Andrew Haley wrote: NightStrike wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:27 PM, David Daney wrote: 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 st

Re: GCC and boehm-gc

2009-06-18 Thread Andrew Haley
NightStrike wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:27 PM, David Daney > wrote: >> 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

Re: GCC and boehm-gc

2009-06-18 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:27 PM, David Daney wrote: > 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 >> lib

Re: GCC and boehm-gc

2009-06-18 Thread David Daney
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

GCC and boehm-gc

2009-06-18 Thread NightStrike
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