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Re: Phase 1 of gcc-in-cxx now complete
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Ian Lance Taylor<iant@google.com> wrote:
> 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.
I'm curious about this. I thought c++ wasn't a garbage collected
language on purpose. Why does GCC have one? What purpose does it
serve? I'm not suggesting otherwise, but just trying to learn more
about the way things are done.