On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 04:44:44PM -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: > Terrence: > >> The libgc that is distributed with Sun Studio is a commercial product >> that was produced by Geodesic (which has gone out of business). We have >> the sources but no authorization to change or distribute them. >> >> I suspect that an implementation of a "Boehm-Demers-Weiser" GC being >> maintained by Hans Boehm will not have stability or quality problems. The >> compilers/tools group would have no objection to this version >> superceding the one from Geodesic. > > Would it make more sense for someone in the Compilers team to own > libgc rather than the JDS desktop/Indiana team? > > Perhaps it is okay for JDS/Indiana to own it for now, but perhaps > it should migrate over to the compilers team over time?
Any word from the compiler folks about how they'd like to see this project move forward? Or should we just let it time out as specified (with the interfaces changed to Committed)? Thanks, Danek
