Ticket #2019 (closed bug: fixed)

Opened 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

Set GC_DEFAULT_TYPE in config.h instead of on cc command line.

Reported by: doughera Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: configure Version: branch
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: Language:
Patch status: new Platform:

Description

In the gen_gc2 branch, the GC to be used is specified at Configure.pl time. The step config::auto::gc.pm currently adds a flag like

-DPARROT_GC_DEFAULT_TYPE=GMS

to the C compiler command line. The attached patch changes it to set a #define in include/parrot/config.h instead. This has two main advantages. First, it is simpler. I was able to remove gc_flag from several places that previously needed to manually add it to the compiler flags. Second, it scales better to other potential Configure steps that might also want to #define things.

The RT ticket linked in TT #1048 goes into much more detail on these issues.

I had to comment out one test in t/steps/gc-01.t because either I don't understand what the test is trying to do, or it's broken. (The test, that is, not the config/auto/gc.pm function that is being tested.) I don't understand the testing infrastructure well enough to figure out what's going on.

Rakudo currently includes 'gc_flag' in its Makefile, though the field is currently empty. This patch retains an empty, useless gc_flag for backwards compatibility.

Attachments

tt2019-gc_flag.patch Download (5.2 KB) - added by doughera 11 years ago.

Change History

Changed 11 years ago by doughera

Changed 11 years ago by bacek

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to fixed

Patch applied in f04ebf1. Thanks!

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