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

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

Eric Bezault wrote:
> 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.

It's now implemented in svn#6276.

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