Wednesday, February 03, 2021

Re: UPDATE: devel/boehm-gc 8.0.4

On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 18:40:50 -0500 (EST)
kurt@intricatesoftware.com wrote:

> Update to 8.0.4 with the following additional changes:
> - Use mmap via the configure argument instead of hard-coding it.
> - Define USE_MMAP_ANON for all OpenBSD arch to match upstream
> code conventions.
> - Remove unused ELF_CLASS define for OpenBSD.
> - Remove old HAVE_DL_ITERATE_PHDR workaround for OpenBSD.
> - Don't use old GC_find_limit_openbsd() which is only needed for
> uthreads.
>
> I've tested this on i386, amd64, sparc64 and aarch64 using the
> port's regress tests and by using w3m. Note that on aarch64 the
> current boehm-gc port isn't stable and w3m will crash it pretty
> easily. This update has not fixed that (aarch64 is still unstable
> but the regress tests pass).
>
> Additional testing on mips, powerpc, etc. would be appreciated.

I tested on macppc:

- all 17 tests are passing
- w3m's runtime is still fine

Charlène.

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