libgc should be updated to 8.0.6

[Ivan Maidanski <ivmai@mail.ru>]

 

Dear colleagues,

 

The libgc package in sid (https://packages.debian.org/sid/libgc-dev) is at version 8.0.4, which was released in Mar 2019.

 

It would be great if the package can be updated since there are quite many fixes as listed in its changelog (https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/blob/release-8_0/ChangeLog#L4-L96), the short list of major changes in 8.0.6:

* Fix 'undefined reference to __data_start' linker error on RISC-V

* Fix data race in generic_malloc_many

* Fix handling of areas smaller than page size in GC_scratch_recycle

* Fix misaligned tlfs passed to AO_load on m68k

* Fix overflow of scratch_free_ptr value

* Limit number of unmapped regions (to avoid exceeding of vm.max_map_count)

 

Upstream tarball: https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/releases/download/v8.0.6/gc-8.0.6.tar.gz (or https://hboehm.info/gc/gc_source/gc-8.0.6.tar.gz)

 

I have already posted this request on Debian Bug system (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=999740) but there’s no response yet.

 

Thank you

 

PS enable-threads-on-hurd.diff and issue329.diff should be dropped on update.

 

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Ivan Maidanski