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Re: [RFA] boehm-gc for AIX
- From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- To: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:11:59 +1300
- Subject: Re: [RFA] boehm-gc for AIX
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10201271018360.10306-100000@mars.deadcafe.org>
Jeff Sturm wrote:
>CNI invocation is another problem... it's unfortunate that the CNI spec
>says nothing about static roots, so it seems to imply the existence of a
>conservative GC.
>
We could certainly add something to the spec to say that any global
variables holding Java objects must be declared in Java. This would
probibly make things easier for a theoretical non-conservative GC in
future. I don't think I've seen any CNI code which does otherwise anyway.
regards
Bryce.