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

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Peter Wang wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:17:04 +1100 Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Peter,
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Peter Wang wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:46:20 +1100 Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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)

Thanks Peter. I'll do a bit of testing on macOS after the next ROTD is available.
For reference, after updating to this change, everyone needs to run

     $ git submodule update --recursive

in their workspaces.

Julien.