[gclist] beta version of DEC/MIT pthreads version of Boehm's GC available

[Ian Piumarta]

I have made a beta version of my extensions to Hans Boehm's conservative GC
(version 4.10) available by anonymous FTP from:

	ftp://alix.inra.fr/pub/gc

Some selected extracts from the README file are included below.

I would especially like to thank David Halls (David.Halls@cl.cam.ac.uk) for
testing the many "alpha" versions of these extensions, suggesting numerous
improvements, and for contributing code related to the HP-PA architecture and
dynamic loading.

Ian
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The pthreads extensions allow the GC to be used with DECpthreads
(under Digital Unix, formerly DEC OSF/1) or the user-level
MIT-pthreads implementation by Chris Provenzano (running on a large
variety of platforms).  DECthreads is bundled with DEC's Unix
machines; MIT-pthreads is available from:

                ftp://sipb.mit.edu:/pub/pthreads
        or      ftp://toxicwaste.mit.edu:/pub/archive/pthreads


INSTALLATION AND PORTABILITY

These extensions have been tested (and appear to work) on the
following platforms:

    DECthreads:
        DEC Alpha       OSF/1 3.2C/3.2D

    MIT-pthreads (tested with pthreads versions 1.60 beta4 and beta5.9):
        DEC Alpha       OSF/1 3.2C/3.2D
        Sparc           SunOS 4.1.3/4.1.3_U1/4.1.4
        i586            Red Hat Linux 3.0.3, Kernel 1.99.4
        HP 9000/725     HP-UX A.09.05

Very minor additions may be needed to be make the extensions work with
the other architectures supported by both the GC and MIT-pthreads.