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Re: malloc-based ggc-page
On Jan 20, 2000, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br> writes:
Alexandre> BTW, why not just move the whole page allocation system
Alexandre> into libiberty. I mean, including mmap anonymous, mmap
Alexandre> /dev/zero and plain valloc? This would make it far
Alexandre> more reusable!
> Yes, this would be a good idea. But, it should still be moved in
> separate pieces!
I was actually just talking about moving alloc_anon(), free_page() and
release_pages() into a portable xvalloc libiberty module. The garbage
collector engine would remain within gcc, at least for now.
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