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Re: robustness vs. conservative GC
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au
- Subject: Re: robustness vs. conservative GC
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:01:13 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, lord at regexps dot com
<<Yes, but ensuring that requires cooperation from the back-end compiler!
Not really, it is simply part of the instruction set for which the code
generator is generating code. If you regard it as "cooperation" to generate
correct code, then it is hard to imagine a back-end that does not cooperate :-)