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Re: gc problem?
- To: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Subject: Re: gc problem?
- From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:52:01 +1300
- CC: "'Anthony Green'" <green at redhat dot com>, "Java at Gcc dot Gnu. Org" <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- References: <40700B4C02ABD5119F000090278766443BECE7@hplex1.hpl.hp.com>
Boehm, Hans wrote:
>2) (Harder, may not ever happen.) Teach the compiler to generate descriptors
>for the stack layout, and the collector to interpret them, so that we can
>scan the stack (mostly) nonconservatively.
>
Can't GCC do this already (ie DWARF2)? If that is good enough for the EH
unwinder and GDB, wouldn't it have enough info for GC as well?
regards
Bryce.