Importing boehm-gc 6.7?

Mon Jul 17 17:02:00 GMT 2006

Todd Vierling wrote:
> (I'm not on the list, so please Cc: me on replies, at least for now. This
> is just a preliminary question. ;)
>> So, gcj still uses boehm-gc 6.3-hacked-to-bits. Is there any chance of
> bringing it up to date (at least version 6.7)? Doing so *should* make gcj
> threads [mostly, if not fully] work on NetBSD. gcj-4.1 on NetBSD is near
> useless, and 4.2 simply segfaults at startup.
>> I've attempted to look at three-way diffs of gc-6.7 <-> gc-6.3 <-> gcj-4.2,
> but my head hurts. Perhaps a vendor import is really the way to go here,
> rather than trying to forklift yet more hacks into place...?
>
A good question. Perhaps the libgcj maintainers would care to comment.
David Daney.