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Re: GC use within GCC
- To: Tom Lord <lord at regexps dot com>
- Subject: Re: GC use within GCC
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:47:18 +0100
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Tom Lord wrote:-
>
> Am I reading the code of GCC correctly? It appears that, although GCC
> now uses the Boehm collector, it does not perform a conservative scan
> of the C stack. Is that true?
>
> Does GCC use the conservative feature's of boehm-gc at all? or is
> it being used as an exact collector?
I don't believe "core" GCC uses it at all; I think it's something to
do with GCJ.
Neil.