| Summary: | dev-lang/mercury bundles a copy of boehm-gc | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Keri Harris <keri> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | esigra |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 251464 | ||
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Description
Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED)
2008-12-25 20:03:22 UTC
I thought that allowing Mercury to use a system copy of Boehm GC would indeed be a worthwhile endeavour; alas, upstream didn't: They inform me that their bundled copy of Boehm GC contains some custom code and is required by Mercury to handle large heaps, thread-local allocation and parallel marking. |