From: hboehm Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:41:03 +0000 (+0000) Subject: 2006-10-05 Hans Boehm X-Git-Tag: gc7_0alpha9~25 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ed9813612c1e4ecbdd30f79167a2b43bfee356b3;p=gc 2006-10-05 Hans Boehm * Document gc_cpp.h misbehavior with dynamic libraries. --- diff --git a/doc/README.darwin b/doc/README.darwin index 72d60406..b413ff33 100644 --- a/doc/README.darwin +++ b/doc/README.darwin @@ -82,6 +82,20 @@ Darwin/OS X port. -Brian Alliet brian@brianweb.net +gc_cpp.h usage +============== + +Replacement of operator new and delete is apparently not supported with +dynamic libraries. This means that applications using gc_cpp.h +(including the built-in test) will probably not work correctly with +the collector in a dynamic library, unless special care is taken. + +See +http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.garbage-collection.boehmgc/1421 +for some details. + +- Hans Boehm (based on information from Andrew Begel) + Older Information (Most of this no longer applies to the current code) ======================================================================