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Re: gcc-in-cxx: Garbage Collecting STL Containers
Maybe at some point then we should just stop using gengtype and just
hand-write the walkers once.
One of the reasons gengtype exists is because you can't easily have an
abstract interface with member functions that you can force people to
implement in C.
In C++, we can.
This is of course, a large change, but i'm not sure how much more work
it really is than trying to understand gengtype and rewrite it to
properly parse C++/support STL containers.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
>
>>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 08:35:41AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>> I think most of the needed changes will be in gengtype. If you aren't
>>> familiar with what this does, read gcc/doc/gty.texi.
>
> Daniel> Also - I may regret saying this but - doesn't gengtype have a
> Daniel> simplistic C parser in it? How upset is it likely to get on C++
> Daniel> input?
>
> Yeah, it does -- see gengtype-parse.c.
> I haven't done extensive hacking there; I don't really know how upset
> it will be. I assume it won't work the first time :)
>
> Tom
>