On 04/01/2011 10:05 AM, Kai Tietz wrote: > 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?
Please send everything upstream. Once that's done we can copy the upstream branch directly into gcc. There may be problems with the testsuite, but we can deal with them as they arise. Andrew.
