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Re: FYI: Linker & Verifier fixes (really GC mark procedures)
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: "Boehm, Hans" <hans dot boehm at hp dot com>
- Cc: "Bryce McKinlay" <mckinlay at redhat dot com>, "Robert Schuster" <theBohemian at gmx dot net>, <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 01 Feb 2006 12:37:30 -0700
- Subject: Re: FYI: Linker & Verifier fixes (really GC mark procedures)
- References: <65953E8166311641A685BDF71D8658266C1BC4@cacexc12.americas.cpqcorp.net>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans.boehm@hp.com> writes:
Hans> The present issue aside, I think we're in general far better off
Hans> allocating collectable memory for anything that interacts with the
Hans> collector, and making the mark descriptors conservative, and eventually
Hans> correct.
I agree. I don't think it would be extremely hard to expose a bit
more GC API here, and set up proper descriptors for various
libgcj-internal non-java-class objects that we want to mark properly.
Tom