From: <je...@i3...> - 2002-03-07 21:47:36
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On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Timothy J. Wood wrote: > Since I'm coming from the Mac OS X world which uses reference counting > instead of GC for ObjC, I'm not concerned about Boehm-GC. I'm sure > there are others that would miss it, but I can't say how much. Adam Megacz has submitted patches for libjava in 3.1, including boehm-gc. I don't know how much that helps ObjC, but at least the GC library should be working reasonably well. > Once there is a source snapshot for 3.1 I'll definitely try out > building the ObjC runtime as a DLL. If there is some version that > mostly works that I can get at via GCC CVS or otherwise let me know and > I can try to test it before the 3.1 release date. 3.1 has already branched for release. CVS branch name is gcc-3_1-branch. Instructions for getting it at http://gcc.gnu.org/cvs.html. Now is the time for testing and feedback. It may be too late already for major changes. Jeff |