Am 01.04.2011 13:01, schrieb Kai Tietz: > 2011/4/1 Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com>: >> 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. >> > > Ok, I've posted the diffs to Ivan. I separated them into two pieces. > One all before testsuite patch (was last recent one) and the other > changes. Due the fact that a lot of files in boehm-gc have changed > places, I think it is better that Ivan does the diff here manually, as > it is sometime hard to find where file has gone, or if it is still > present.
what's the status of this work? I'd like to see this update in 4.8, asked about this on the java list. Matthias
