[m-rev.] for review: update to Boehm GC v8.0.6

[Peter Wang]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:17:04 +1100 Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Peter Wang wrote:
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> > On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:08:41 +1100 Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
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> >> Hi Peter,
> >>
> >> On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Peter Wang wrote:
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> >>> On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:46:20 +1100 Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
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> >>>> Hi Peter,
> >>>>
> >>>> The subject says you are updating to version 8.0.6 but the log message
> >>>> says version 8.2.0.  Which is it?
> >>>
> >>> Oops, it's v8.0.6.
> >>
> >> Is there a reason for not going straight to 8.2.0?
> >
> > On https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/wiki/Download v8.2.0 is marked as
> > "experimental". I don't claim to understand all (or most) of the changes
> > in bdwgc so I just picked the "stable" release.
> 
> Fair enough; I didn't realise it had been marked as experimental.

I've commited the change now, after testing on:

    Linux x86-64 (glibc, musl)
    Linux i686 (glibc)
    Linux aarch64 (musl)
    OpenBSD x86-64
    FreeBSD x86-64
    MinGW-w64 x86-64 (cross compiled, didn't run the test suite but Prince works)
    MinGW-w64 i686 (ditto)

Peter