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Re: robustness vs. conservative GC
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au
- Subject: Re: robustness vs. conservative GC
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 19:11:49 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, lord at regexps dot com
<<I don't consider that to be cooperation.
But one of the reasons for wanting a solution that doesn't require
cooperation from the back-end is for portability. Relying on a tagged
architecture may avoid the need for back-end cooperation, but it isn't
a portable solution.
>>
Of course that is true, I was just objecting to your generalization.