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

[Colin A. <col...@go...>]

On 22/01/2008, Eric Bezault <er...@go...> wrote:
> Eric Bezault wrote:

> >> 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.

> It's now implemented in svn#6276.

Thanks.

What happens if this option is supplied, but BOEHM_GC is not set? Is
an error message issued, or does compilation go ahead assuming the
value is actually set to "none"?

If the former, then is it possible to test to see if an environment
variable is set within a system.xace file?