GNU Tools
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The collector should be buildable under Cygwin with either the old standard
-Makefile, or possibly with the "configure --diable-shared;make" machinery.
+Makefile, or possibly with the "configure --disable-shared;make" machinery.
(For the latter use --enable-threads=posix for thread support.) The major issue
here seems to be that dynamic library support is not currently enabled for
Cygwin. (This is probably fixable without a great deal of difficulty by
Ivan Demakov (email: ivan@tgrad.nsk.su)
+Note from Ivan Maidanski:
+
+Special note for OpenWatcom users: the C (unlike the C++) compiler (of the
+latest stable release, not sure for older ones) doesn't force pointer global
+variables (i.e. not struct fields, not sure for locals) to be aligned unless
+optimizing for speed (eg. "-ot" option is set); the "-zp" option (or align
+pragma) only controls alignment for structs; I don't know whether it's a bug or
+a feature (see an old report of same kind -
+http://bugzilla.openwatcom.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664), so You are warned.
+
+
Incremental Collection
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There is some support for incremental collection. By default, the