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Re: Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?

From: Larry Evans <cppljevans at cox-internet dot com>
To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:10:30 -0600
Subject: Re: Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?
References: <20050401114030.8EAC223CFE@ws5-3.us4.outblaze.com> <16973.13266.774676.624020@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> <1112361374.4914.1.camel@linux.site> <16973.20022.72335.780851@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> <d2jl70$9jo$1@sea.gmane.org>

On 04/01/2005 08:21 AM, Larry Evans wrote:

On 04/01/2005 07:35 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
[snip]
To be fair to the Boehm gc, though: it isn't inherently a conservative
collector, but will also do precise gc.
Wouldn't this require a GC_descr as defined here:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/gc_typedh.txt

for each data structure containing a pointer to the heap?


And even then, it wouldn't be totally precise because the stack would
still have to be scanned conservatively to locate heap pointers.

References:
- Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?
  - From: Sam Lauber
- Re: Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?
  - From: Andrew Haley
- Re: Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?
  - From: Daniel Berlin
- Re: Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?
  - From: Andrew Haley
- Re: Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?
  - From: Larry Evans

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