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Re: [patch] Move loop structures to gc memory

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:37:40PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Why do we need the strategy of "GC with explicit death marking?"  What
> goal does that serve?

Exactly this problem.  Which comes up several times a year.

> Except to work around a bug in our GC implementation?  And in that
> case, why not fix the bug?

Would you like to try?  Last time I looked at this I had just spent a
month hacking on the GC, and I didn't see any way to do it.  I'm sure
it's possible, though.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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