From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zack Weinberg To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Alexandre Oliva , egcs@egcs.cygnus.com Subject: Re: making aliases into the middle of a structure Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:49:00 -0000 Message-id: <199904232048.QAA20585@blastula.phys.columbia.edu> References: <19990423223236.A5686@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> X-SW-Source: 1999-04/msg00818.html On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 22:32:36 +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote: >Jeffrey A Law wrote: >> Cygnus implemented a switch to have the compiler dump offsets for fields >> within structures in a format intended to be used by assembly code. > >Hey, my neuron flickered! > >Does the dump include enough type information to generate a decent >non-conservative garbage collector? You'd need stack frame information too, wouldn't you? zw From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zack Weinberg To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Alexandre Oliva , egcs@egcs.cygnus.com Subject: Re: making aliases into the middle of a structure Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:15:00 -0000 Message-ID: <199904232048.QAA20585@blastula.phys.columbia.edu> References: <19990423223236.A5686@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> X-SW-Source: 1999-04n/msg00824.html Message-ID: <19990430231500.koB6lvvn86-ag6-oJSBTSBqgaQM20ItYqdIsxlttMK8@z> On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 22:32:36 +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote: >Jeffrey A Law wrote: >> Cygnus implemented a switch to have the compiler dump offsets for fields >> within structures in a format intended to be used by assembly code. > >Hey, my neuron flickered! > >Does the dump include enough type information to generate a decent >non-conservative garbage collector? You'd need stack frame information too, wouldn't you? zw