Enable support for garbage collection in objective-c (libobjc_gc)
Bug #186681 reported by
Christopher Sachs
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gcc-4.2 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gcc
GCC has two variants of its Objective-C runtime library, one garbage collected (libobjc_gc) one not (libobjc). Only the non-garbage collected variant is packaged in Ubuntu.
The combination of directly linking to c code, flexible smalltalk based object messaging system, and modern garbage collection which can exceed the performance of manual memory management make Objective-C an extremely appealing and exciting language to work in. But the last piece--garbage collection--is not available in Ubuntu.
Please create a new gcc package for libobjc_gc. Thanks.
Revision history for this message
| Matthias Klose (doko) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gcc-defaults: | |
| status: | New → In Progress |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in gcc-4.2: | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
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This bug was fixed in the package gcc-4.2 - 4.2.3-1ubuntu1
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gcc-4.2 (4.2.3-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low
* Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
- Build from a tarball including the GFDL documentation.
- Regenerate the control file.
gcc-4.2 (4.2.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Update to SVN 20080201 from the ubuntu/
to the gcc-4.2.3 release.
[ Matthias Klose ]
* gij-4.2: Provide java*-runtime-
* Apply backport for PR middle-end/34688. Closes: #459429.
* Renable build of libobjc_gc, using the internal version of boehm-gc.
Closes: #212248. LP: #186681.
* Handle lzma compressed tarballs.
* Remove the GFDL documentation from the source. Go, DFSG!. Closes: #456262.
[ Aurelien Jarno ]
* debian/
-- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:53:58 +0100