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Re: ggc-simple rewrite
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: ggc-simple rewrite
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 01:41:55 -0600
- cc: rth at cygnus dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <19991013000648S.mitchell@codesourcery.com>you write:
> It also occurs to me that if we lose the differences between
> allocations, we should consider moving the collectors into libiberty;
> only the mark_tree vs. mark_rtx bits are really GCC-dependent. I can
> imagine that other GNU projects could make good use of Alex's speedy
> collector.
In fact the idea of doing garbage collection just surfaced in the gdb dev
list. I don't expect they'll be moving anytime soon, but it's in the back
of their minds.
jeff