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[gobo-eiffel-develop] Garbage collector for use with gec-compiled applications

From: Colin P. A. <co...@co...> - 2007-12-09 05:35:24

What do you specify in the xace file when compiling with gec to have
your application use the boehm garbage collector?

I have:

<option name="garbage_collector" value="internal"/>

for both gexslt and gestalt - that's for use with SE. Yet it seems to
work with gec, although 

<option name="garbage_collector" value="boehm"/>

would seem more logical. I'm guessing both mean the same thing.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire

Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Garbage collector for use with gec-compiled applications

From: Eric B. <er...@go...> - 2007-12-09 08:47:17

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> What do you specify in the xace file when compiling with gec to have
> your application use the boehm garbage collector?
> 
> I have:
> 
> <option name="garbage_collector" value="internal"/>
> 
> for both gexslt and gestalt - that's for use with SE. Yet it seems to
> work with gec, although 
> 
> <option name="garbage_collector" value="boehm"/>
> 
> would seem more logical. I'm guessing both mean the same thing.

The Gobo compiler does not take the Xace 'garbage_collector' option
yet into account. What you have to do to use the Boehm GC is to use
the gec command-line option --gc=boehm (and make sure that the
environment variable $BOEHM_GC points to where it is installed.
This works fine under Windows when using msc. See the config file
$GOBO/tool/gec/config/msc.cfg. I didn't specify the proper config
options in the file $GOBO/tool/gec/config/gcc.cfg yet, but it should
be easy to do just by looking at what is done in the msc.cfg file.
I will try to make gec aware of the Xace 'garbage_collector' option
(in addition to the command-line option) in the near future.

-- 
Eric Bezault
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http://www.gobosoft.com

Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Garbage collector for use with gec-compiled applications

From: Colin P. A. <co...@co...> - 2007-12-09 09:07:56

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:

    Eric> The Gobo compiler does not take the Xace 'garbage_collector'
    Eric> option yet into account. What you have to do to use the
    Eric> Boehm GC is to use the gec command-line option --gc=boehm
    Eric> (and make sure that the environment variable $BOEHM_GC
    Eric> points to where it is installed.

Do I have to download the boehm gc separately then, or is it in the
Gobo distribution?
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire

Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Garbage collector for use with gec-compiled applications

From: Eric B. <er...@go...> - 2007-12-09 14:59:24

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:
> 
>     Eric> The Gobo compiler does not take the Xace 'garbage_collector'
>     Eric> option yet into account. What you have to do to use the
>     Eric> Boehm GC is to use the gec command-line option --gc=boehm
>     Eric> (and make sure that the environment variable $BOEHM_GC
>     Eric> points to where it is installed.
> 
> Do I have to download the boehm gc separately then, or is it in the
> Gobo distribution?

You have to download it separately and install it.

-- 
Eric Bezault
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http://www.gobosoft.com

Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Garbage collector for use with gec-compiled applications

From: Colin P. A. <co...@co...> - 2007-12-09 15:01:17

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:

    Eric> Windows when using msc. See the config file
    Eric> $GOBO/tool/gec/config/msc.cfg. I didn't specify the proper
    Eric> config options in the file $GOBO/tool/gec/config/gcc.cfg
    Eric> yet, but it should be easy to do just by looking at what is
    Eric> done in the msc.cfg file.

I got it working. For the first time ever, I can run the complete W3C
test suite in one go, and quickly too.

Here is my gcc.cfg file:

-- Command lines
cc: gcc $cflags $includes  $gc_includes -c $c
link: gcc $lflags -lm -o $exe $objs $libs $gc_libs

-- File extensions
obj: .o
exe:

-- Variables
#ifdef EIF_WORKBENCH
cflags: 
lflags:
#else
-- cflags: -O2
cflags:
lflags:
#endif
#ifdef EIF_BOEHM_GC
gc_includes: -I$BOEHM_GC/include 
gc_libs: $BOEHM_GC/lib/libgc.a
#else
gc_includes:
gc_libs:
#endif

-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire

Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Garbage collector for use with gec-compiled applications

From: Eric B. <er...@go...> - 2007-12-09 15:13:57

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:
> 
>     Eric> Windows when using msc. See the config file
>     Eric> $GOBO/tool/gec/config/msc.cfg. I didn't specify the proper
>     Eric> config options in the file $GOBO/tool/gec/config/gcc.cfg
>     Eric> yet, but it should be easy to do just by looking at what is
>     Eric> done in the msc.cfg file.
> 
> I got it working. For the first time ever, I can run the complete W3C
> test suite in one go, and quickly too.

Congratulations.

> Here is my gcc.cfg file:
> 
> -- Command lines
> cc: gcc $cflags $includes  $gc_includes -c $c
> link: gcc $lflags -lm -o $exe $objs $libs $gc_libs
> 
> -- File extensions
> obj: .o
> exe:
> 
> -- Variables
> #ifdef EIF_WORKBENCH
> cflags: 
> lflags:
> #else
> -- cflags: -O2
> cflags:
> lflags:
> #endif
> #ifdef EIF_BOEHM_GC
> gc_includes: -I$BOEHM_GC/include 
> gc_libs: $BOEHM_GC/lib/libgc.a
> #else
> gc_includes:
> gc_libs:
> #endif

Can you check it in into SVN?

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Eric Bezault
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Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Garbage collector for use with gec-compiled applications

From: Colin P. A. <co...@co...> - 2007-12-09 15:16:38

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:

    Eric> Can you check it in into SVN?

Done.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire