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

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

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.

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