[m-rev.] for-review: Apply upstream BoehmGC changes for glibc lock elision bug workaround

[Julien Fischer]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:15:41AM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, Paul Bone wrote:
> >
> >> For review/testing by others.
> >>
> >> Last time I modified something in boehm_gc/ I broke the build for OS X.
> >> This works on 64bit Linux (Debian testing) but I havn't tested it on
> other
> >> platforms.  Julien could you help me out by building this on OS X and
> >> perhaps Windows?  I've been testing it with the icfp2000_par_pbone
> benchmark
> >> in asm_fast.gc.par.stseg.  Thanks.
> >>
> >> I have a branch with these patches here:
> >> https://github.com/PaulBone/mercury/tree/fix_tsx_bug
> >
> > Ok, I'll take a look at it on those systems, but probably not today.
> > (The above benchmark won't work on OS X in any case.)
> >
>
> The Boehm GC developers made some additional changes, I've integrated these
> changes and updated the above branch.
>

Ok.  I haven't got around to looking at yet it in any case.

Cheers,
Julien.
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