plugin for reference counting

[David Malcolm]

On Tue, 2024-11-12 at 16:54 -0500, Aravind Ceyardass via Gcc wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have implemented a GCC plugin that instruments code to implement
> reference counted memory management instead of manually adding calls
> to inc()/dec() reference counts. It is a work in progress. Any
> ideas/suggestions are welcome. 
> 
> Code is at https://github.com/acbits/reftrack-plugin
> 
> Here is a sample. 
> 
> typedef struct S S;
> S *p = ... , *q = ...;
> p = q;
> 
> is transformed into
> 
> typedef struct S S;
> S *p = ... , *q = ...;
> S_addref(q);
> S_removeref(p);
> p = q;

Looks interesting; thanks for letting us know.

I've gone ahead and added a link to your project to the table of known
plugins on our wikik (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/plugins)

Dave