Does the garbage collector implementation change between phobos and tango?

Lars Ivar Igesund larsivar at igesund.net
Fri Jun 29 07:50:43 PDT 2007


Jason House wrote:

> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Tango uses a modified version of the Phobos GC, so I'm afraid there's no
>> easy answer to your question.  However, if you can find any bugs in the
>> Tango code I'll be more than happy to fix them.
> 
> 
> That, in and of itself, is enough of a reason to switch over (and is one
> of the reasons I suspected I'd be happier with tango... Walter is very
> busy).  Which version(s) of gdc does tango actively support?  The latest
> version, 0.23, only corresponds to D 1.007.  I'm not sure what changed
> between 1.007 and 1.016+ that may break compatibility.  The 2.0 stuff
> certainly may...

Tango should work fine with GDC 0.23 (you need a patch to have it working
with latest SVN of GDC) as long as your machine is x86. I believe Bugzilla
1258 is fixed in Tango, btw.

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