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Re: robustness vs. conservative GC
- To: hans_boehm at hp dot com (Boehm, Hans)
- Subject: Re: robustness vs. conservative GC
- From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 01:07:16 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org ('gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org')
> For one, you basically can no longer use callee-save registers or stacked
> registers for pointers across procedure calls. You need to spill everything
It should be safe if the GC uses setjmp to get a copy of the calee-saved
registers.