Re: Phase 1 of gcc-in-cxx now complete

[Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>]

Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com> writes:

> All that above said - do you expect us to carry both vec.h (for VEC in
> GC memory) and std::vector (for VECs in heap memory) (and vec.h
> for the alloca trick ...)?  Or do you think we should try to make the GTY
> machinery C++ aware and annotate the standard library (ick...)?

I expect us to write a GC allocator, and use that with std::vector.
This will require more hooks into the GC code, but I think it is doable.

> IMHO we should at least try without the standard library for a start,
> fixing the GTY machinery.

If we can't write a GC allocator, then I agree.

Ian