[m-rev.] diff: upgrade to boehm gc 7.2

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Peter Ross wrote:

> Please find attached the interesting bits (ie those bits where I had to resolve
> a non-obvious conflict) of the diff to upgrade to version 7.2 of the boehm gc
> collector.
>
> The full diff can be found at uranus:~petdr/DIFF.GC72
>
> This change successfully bootchecked in the asm_fast.gc and hlc.gc grades.
> I also installed the resulting compiler in the asm_fast.gc and hlc.gc grades
> and then built some test programs in those grades, on my local machine.
>
> So far this has only been tested extensively on linux.

You should definitely test some other grades: certainly asm_fast.par.gc,
hlc.par.gc, plus some memprof, profdeep and threascope grades.
(If he has time, Paul should probably do the latter.)

> Julien, can you test on Mac OS X and Windows?

Shall do.

Julien.
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