Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Gec, Boehm and xace

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

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> I did an svn update this morning, and noticing the large number of
> changes, I decided to re-run the bootstrap.
> 
> Looking at History.txt, I see, amongst others:
> 
> This makes if possible for example for 'gec' to determine
>            --
>  whether the Boehm GC should be used trhough the Xace option
>                                       --
>  'garbage_collector'.
> 
> Apart from the two typos, the sentence seems to suggest that <option
> name="garbage_collector" value="boehm"/> should now work.
> 
> But there is no confirmation of this in the section on gec itself. I
> see that a compile_ge.xace file is generated and read, and the option
> gets passed through to that file. But it looks like the option is
> still ignored. Can you confirm that for the moment I still have to
> type the gec command by hand to add the --gc=boehm option? 

Yes, you still have to do that. "It makes it possible" does not
mean that it is already done. But it should be done anytime soon.
I will open a bug report as a reminder.

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