Package: libgc Severity: wishlist Hello Ryan,
as of 09-Sep-2005 there is a new upstream release 6.6 available at <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/>. Recent changes include | - Don't access the GC thread structure from the restart handler. It's | unsafe, since the handler may run too late. (Thanks to Ben Maurer for | tracking this down.) | - Applied Christian Thalinger's patch to change comment syntax in | alpha_mach_dep.S. | - Use LINUX_STACKBOTTOM for Linux/SH and LINUX/ARM. (Thanks to Sugioka | Toshinobu and Christian Thalinger.) | - Rewrote GC_parse_map_entry. This assumed a fixed column layout of | /proc/self/maps on Linux. This ceased to be true about 2 years ago. | The old code is probably quite problemetic with -DREDIRECT_MALLOC. It | is also used by default for IA64, though I haven't seen actual failures | there. | - More consistently define HBLKSIZE to 4096 on 64 bit architectures with | 4K pages. (Thanks to Andrew Haley.) | - With win32 threads, GC_stop_world needs to acquire GC_write_cs. (Thanks | to Ben Hutchings for the observation and patch.) | - Move up struct callinfo declaration to make gcc 4.0.2. happy. Please update the package when you think it is due time. Cheers, Flo
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