Does the garbage collector implementation change between phobos and tango?

Jason House jason.james.house at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 07:56:35 PDT 2007


Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> 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.
> 

x86 is a bad assumption...  What about mac support?  I routinely run my 
project on 32 bit x86, 64 bit x86, and mac.  The latter two are only 
supported by gdc and is the big reason why I want to be able to use it.


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