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

[Peter Ross]

On 16 July 2012 18:33, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> 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.)
>
How do you test the threadscope grades?   I can't work out what the
grade string is, if any?
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