Upgrade Boehm GC to 7.2alpha4.

[cacao.git] / src / mm / boehm-gc / doc / README.win64

diff --git a/src/mm/boehm-gc/doc/README.win64 b/src/mm/boehm-gc/doc/README.win64
index 2225fd4ca12810363676e03787432857715bd405..416f0348cf25a3979a9a5ff265700a701c48488b 100644 (file)
--- a/src/mm/boehm-gc/doc/README.win64
+++ b/src/mm/boehm-gc/doc/README.win64
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 64-bit Windows on AMD64/Intel EM64T is somewhat supported in the 7.0
-and later release.  A collector can be built with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005.
-The resulting test programs have been known to work at least once.
+and later release.  A collector can be built with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
+or with mingw-w64 gcc.
 More testing would clearly be helpful.
 
 NT_X64_STATIC_THREADS_MAKEFILE has been used in
 this environment.  Copy this file to MAKEFILE, and then type "nmake"
 in a Visual C++ command line window to build the static library
-and the usual test programs.  To verify that the colllector is
+and the usual test programs.  To verify that the collector is
 at least somewhat functional, run gctest.exe.  This should create
-gctest.exe.log after a few seconds.
+gctest.gc.log after a few seconds.
 
 This process is completely analogous to NT_STATIC_THREADS_MAKEFILE
 for the 32-bit version.
@@ -20,3 +20,7 @@ in some cases.  The C tests seemed OK.
 
 Note that currently a few warnings are still generated by default,
 and a number of others have been explicitly turned off in the makefile.
+
+VC++ note: to suppress warnings use -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE.
+
+gcc note: -fno-strict-aliasing should be used if optimizing.