Does the garbage collector implementation change between phobos and tango?

[Sean Kelly]

Jason House wrote:
> 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.

Tango pretty much runs on mac, as far as I know.  The greatest obstacle 
there has been a lack of mac users needed for thorough testing. 
Kashia's help has been invaluable however, and Carlos has been extremely 
good about reporting mac bugs as well.  So please give it a try, and if 
you find any problems, let us know :-)


Sean