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Re: Patch: RFC: class-related structures and conservative scanning
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Java Patch List <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 07 Feb 2006 17:51:29 -0700
- Subject: Re: Patch: RFC: class-related structures and conservative scanning
- References: <m3bqxjt0cl.fsf@localhost.localdomain> <43E91761.3020301@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay@redhat.com> writes:
Bryce> "ioffsets", as it does not contain pointers.
Bryce> "itable" and "ancestors", because they only ever contain pointers that
Bryce> are already guaranteed to be reachable via the other fields of the
Bryce> same class ("ifaces" and "superclass", respectively).
Thanks, I made these changes.
Bryce> Also, For the interpreter static data, what we should really do is
Bryce> split this into separate pointer and non-pointer data blocks - thus
Bryce> getting precise scanning for free.
Yeah. This looks pretty easy, I'll deal with it tomorrow.
Tom