Does the garbage collector implementation change between phobos and tango?

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

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.

GDC 0.23 have several bugs for non-x86 in particular, that affects Tango, it
is not a lack of effort or wanting from our side that is the main
problem :)

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