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Re: RFC - Alternatives to gengtype
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Basile Starynkevitch <basile at starynkevitch dot net>
- Cc: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Lawrence Crowl <crowl at google dot com>, Laurynas Biveinis <laurynas dot biveinis at gmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:13:09 -0800
- Subject: Re: RFC - Alternatives to gengtype
- References: <20121116005936.GA16988@google.com> <20121116100655.GA19074@ours.starynkevitch.net>
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Basile Starynkevitch
<basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
>
> My strong belief is that a compiler project as gigantic as GCC needs some kind
> of garbage collection.
I suspect that is correct, especially given the way the compiler is
currently implemented. But I also suspect that we could use C++
reference-counted pointers rather than a mark-and-sweep garbage
collector.
Ian