Hello, I would like to update boehm-gc in gcc's tree to more recent version (7.2 - alpha 5). It has shown now that we wait for x64 windows support of boehm-gc more then one year. This blocks the waiting patches for libjava support for this target and some other features depending on boehm-gc. Additional I saw that recently more and more not upstream pushed patches getting applied to boehm-gc, which of course makes an update even more worse. So, I would like to know how boehm-gc shall be handled on gcc's tree. Is the gcc tree version a fork for itself and shall be maintained seperately? Or, shall the patches of boehm-gc done locally to gcc's tree sent upstream? Additionally, I would like to know if the boehm-gc version 7.2 (alpha 5) would be acceptable for gcc's tree?
I spoke with Ivan Maidanski (the current version of latest snapshot of BDWGC - nowadays maintained tree for it is to be found on sourceforge) and he would be accepting patches for boehm-gc, so that gcc's version and upstream BGC getting again in synch. Regards, Kai
