Does the garbage collector implementation change between phobos and tango?

Jason House jason.james.house at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 08:42:42 PDT 2007


Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> 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 :)


Where can I look up/track these issues?


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