Re: Boehm GC API update backport

On 16.01.2016 13:19, Ivan Maidanski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Proposed 4 commits are code refactoring of boehm-gc (and libjava/boehm.cc, accordingly) to match API of recent BDWGC master ( https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc ). This should simplify optional replacement of internal boehm-gcc with the external one.
> All gcj tests pass.
>
> Some of the benefits of using mainline boehm gc:
> *  has no compiler warning
> *  more targets supported (e.g. arm64)
> *  no trouble with back-porting gc patches Similar thing was proposed for the Mono community -  https://github.com/mono/mono/pull/2247  (the patches were accepted recently)
>
> References:
> [1] The proposed patches in GCC unofficial git mirror fork -  https://github.com/ivmai/gcc/tree/match-bdwgc-api

for completeness, please check an ObjC enabled build configured with 
--enable-objc-gc

Matthias